592 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal... [November, 1908.] 
governorship. “These discredited, the ——- eae ae rie 
coins were issued “either because the Prin de fact 
governor of Gujarat or because he was a rebel” of itself “falls to his 
ground. Tested alike by the evidence of the coins themselves and 
by the histories of the time, the hypothesis is untenable, All 
the evidence to hand leads definitely and consentaneously to the 
conclusion that these coins e first struck within a few days 
after Akbar’s death, and that they continued to issue for nine 
consecutive months. 
It is true that in the year 1014 H. some of J ahangir’s heavy 
Kalima rupees issued from the Ahmadabad mint. A specimen, 
dated distinctly 1-1014 and weighing 211 grains, is contained 
in the Bombay Asiatic Society’s Cabinet. Evidently then, if 
our theory of the date of the Salimi coins be correct, the 
Ahmadabad mint must have been producing simultaneously some 
rupees bearing the Emperor's princely name Salim and others 
esteemed friend Mr. phere - Thanawala has recentl; 
The Hahi rupee that Akbar favoured to the very oni of his 
and ome years the current rupee turned the scale 
between the limits of 210 and 222 grains. Now it would appear 
that in Ahmadabad, though there alone, during the first nine 
months of Jahangir’s reign, coins of both types, the lighter and 
the heavier, were permitted to be struck. But each denomination 
had its own legend, Hence it came to pass, and quite in accord- 
ance with the fitness of things, that, while the heavier Kalima 
rupee bore invariably the imperial name Jahangir, for the lighter 
Salmi coin the less exalted princely name sufficed. 
Geo. P. Taytor, 
Ahmadabad. 
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