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closely related the issues are. Their why and wherefore await 
solution. ; 
The copper Ahmadabad coin of Bedar Bakht is in the cabi- 
net of Mr. H. Nelson Wright. I.C.S., and I was familiar with its 
appearance. Two yearsago in the Ambala City bazar I bought 
a small copper piece which at first sight seemed to be another 
copper Ahmadahad piece of Bedar Bakht but much smaller than 
Mr. Nelson Wright’s specimen. The mint, regnal year o=! an 
style tallied but the name of the king was Akbar Shah and the 
hijri year could only be made into 1203 by the insertion of a 
dot. It must not be forgotten that the first vear of the Emperor 
Muhammad Akbar’s reign was 1221-1222 A.H. so there was just 
a possibility that !t"—o-a! might be a blunder for !fr!—oa! or 
Irrr—sal. However, the style was quite different from that of 
the Emperor Muhammad Akbar Shah’s copper coins. On look- 
ing through my collection I found I already possessed an Akbar 
Shah copper coin like my newly-acquired Ahmadabad coin but 
of Shahjahanabad mint. The regnal year was o=! and the unit 
figure of the Aijri date was clearly *. The type was again 
quite different from that of the Eraperor Muhammad Akbar 
Museum Catalogue, Plate XX, No. 3277. The dates on that 
piece are undoubtedly 1203 A.H., oa!, but unluckily the mint 
Hodivala with the following happy results and invite a re- 
ference to his share of this joint paper. Just as Thad finished 
this manuscript I was fortunate enough to pick up a duplicate 
of the Panjab Museum Akbar rupee. The mint is Daru-s-Surur 
Saharanpur, which was the temporary capital of Ghulam Qadir 
Khan at the time when the Dehli correspondent of the Calcutta 
Gazette announced ‘the continuance of Golaum Kadir Cawn 
accompanied by his new elected king Mirza Akbar Shaw, his 
late king Bedar Shaw and several other princes.’ This discov: 
ery was made after Mr. Hodivala had completed his paper and 
Bakht in striking coinat Ahmadabad. Rupees of Ahmadsbéd 
and Shahjahanabad may come to light. At the time of a - 
ing I only know of the above four coins of the new claimant. 
