1922.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXVI. N.Y 

a. Obverse Reverse 
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+ TP ought ~ po 
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All three in my Cabinet.' A duplicate of (1) in the Panjab 
Museum. 
R. B. Waiteneap. 
10th August, 1920. 
It has not vet been possible to find an absolutely complete 
and satisfactory solution of the problem connected with the 
Muhammad Akbar coins of 1203 A.H., but there would seem to 
be fairly good grounds for answering Mr. Whitehead’s question 
in the affirmative. The period was a troubled one and its his- 
tory is obscure. The fullest account of the transactions which 
led to the deposition and blinding of Shah ‘Alam II is in the 
‘Ibrainama of Faqie Khairu-d-din Muhammad, but this work 
has not yet been published. Portions are translated in the 
eighth volume of Elliot and Dowson’s History of India (pp. 
238-245), but the extracts unfortunately stop short at the 
most critical point. Indeed, Dowson informs us in the prefa- 
tory bibliographical notice that “it closes soon after recount- 
ing the horrible cruelties practised on the Emperor Shah ‘Alam 
and his family, by the infamous Ghulam Kadir whose atrocities 
he describes at length and * * * whose career induced th 
author to give his work the title of ‘Jbratnama, Book of Warn- 
ing,” (op. cit. VIII, 237). There is a fairly detailed narrative 
of the events of this memorable year in Keene’s ‘Fall of the 
Mughal Empire’ which is avowedly an abstract paraphrase of 
the Tartkh-i-M uzaffart of Muhammad ‘Ali Khan Ansari (Keene, 
Op. cit., 282), but it throws no real light on the matter in — 
I have a manuscript of the Persian origina and waded throug 
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ee : . British 
! Mr. Whitehead’s coins have since been purchased by sari 
Museum. In the illustrations to coins Nos.:2 and 3 the olyverne ants 
Teverse have been transposed. 
