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Haidarabad State (Imp. Gaz. XIV, 377). Can this be the true 

 home of these coins V 9 



The suggestion that the coin described by me may have 

 issued from the South Indian Qandahar was made to me by 

 Mr. R. Burn before I wrote my note, but as I could only find 

 Qandahar given as the name of a taluq, I thought the proba- 

 bility of that source doubtful. Dr. Taylor's rupee of the 27th 

 year of Muhammad, however, is against the theory I put for- 

 ward in my note, and I have since had the opportunity of 

 reading Major J. S. King's "History of the BahmanI Dy- 

 nasty," on pp. 8 and 122 of which are references to the " Fort 

 of Kandhar " and "the town of Kandhar and its dependen- 

 cies." In the map attached to this history the town of 

 "Kandhar" is located on the Manada River, longitude 77°, 

 latitude 19°. Qandahar was evidently a place of some im- 

 portance on the border between the Ahmadnagar and Bidar 

 principalities, and I am disposed to agree that the rupees of 

 Muhammad Shah of the Qandahar mint more probably issued 

 from the Qandahar of the Dakhan and not from the Qandahar 

 of Afghanistan. 1 



H. Nelson Wright. 



1 Since writing the above Dr. Taylor has written: "In Rogers 

 and Beveridge's Translation of the Tuzuk-i-Jahangirl, page 179, occurs 

 a reference to Qandahar as a fort in the Dakhan, and a footnote adds 

 < Sixty miles north of Bidar, Elliot VI. 70.' " 



