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Aban (the 8th month), Adbhar (the Raw Dai (the 10th), coe 
(the 11th), and Isfandarmuz (the 12th) of the year 50, a 
Farwardin (the lst month), ae (the Pee Khiedsa (the 
3rd), and Tir (the 4th), of the y r2. Such is the evidence of 
the coins themselves, evidence nately counter to the supposi- 
oe) 
o know how Mr. Beve mae explains the eee if it 
represent Akbar’s eed year. It stands in ee with 
e or other of five of the nine peamtbear a hence we may 
safely infer that it Apo some year, s e 50th ear, It cer- 
tainly was not the 50th year of Salim’s “ “rebellion, > nor was it 
the 50th year of his “ de Fick governorship. 
But if, as we maintain, the Salimi coins were struck imme- 
diately on Akbar’s death, the number 50 presents no aes 
whatever. In the month of Mihr there had issued, quite n 
mally, from the Ahmadabad mint, rupees on which was imp: 
the regnal year 50. Within a fortn rtnight after the close of that 
month (on the 10th of Aban) Akbar died. Before this new 
month Aban had ended, the Salimi coins were issued, and these 
the same regnal year as had been entered on the coins of the 
preceding month. Now this is the procedure that would in ordi- 
nary course have been adopted had the date been according to the 
Hijri era ; and it was not unnatural to carry out the same proce- 
dure when reckoning the date from the new epoch approved by 
Akbar, the epoch, to wit, not of Hubsinmad’s Flight but of 
Akbar’s own accession to the throne. Asa matter of fact the 50 
did remain on the coin-dies ont the next New Year’s Day came 
round, and only then, coincident with the change of et was a 
change made in the year’s number as exhibited on the coin 
Mr. treat! thinks it extremely improbable that after his 
accession Jahan would use on his coins the name Salim. 
Well, Jahangir was whee by any means the only Emperor to insert 
on the current coins of the realm the ‘Alam, or “ Christian name,” 
given soon after birth :-— 
1. On the well-known Lahor rupee Shah Jahan I. found 
room for the name Khurram that he had borne 
while a prince (Br. Mus. Catal., No. 578). 
2. Of the coins issued in his first regnal year by Shah 
‘Alam I. there are two distinct types, on each at 
which appears that Emperor's birth-name, Mu‘azza 
(Lah. Mus. Catal., p. 197, Nos. 4 and 5). One pom 
sy from the Tatta mint, and the other probably 
m Murshidabad 
3. Shah ‘Alam II. before he mounted the throne was 
Boewn as the Hin i ‘Ali — and this latter 
occurs rupees —so my own cabinet 
shows as. late a as the he 13th and 14th years of Shah 
‘Alam’s reign. A regnal year so late suffices to > dis- 
