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copper coins of Shah Alam I are extremely scarce. There is 

 not a single specimen in the Indian Museum, and there are only 

 two in the great collection of the capital of the Panjab, though 

 the last three years of that Emperor's life and reign were passed 

 at Lahore. A third specimen of Shahjahanabad mint (?) is men- 

 tioned by Mr. Whitehead (Num. Sup. XV, art. 89, p. 661), but 

 its attribution to Bahadur Shah, Shah Alam I is not free from 

 doubt. The first of these coins weighs 315 grs. (P.M.C. No. 

 2096), the weight of the second is not given, and that of the 

 third is 330 grs. A passage in the Mirat shows that here also 

 the son discarded the standard set by the father. 



(Mirat. I, p. 405, 1. 17, to 406, 1. 1) 



The passage occurs in the author's account of the year 

 1120 a.h. and may be thus translated :— 



Ci Likewise, the exalted Mandate was issued [to the effect] 

 that the black money of the 'Alamgiri Dam should be broken 

 up and stamped again with the auspicious name [of the Em- 

 peror], of the weight [obtaining] in the days of the Emperor 

 under the protection of the [Divine] Pardon, [Shah Jahan], 

 which was 21 Mashas. So, black money of that weight was cur- 

 rent for a time [Muddat), but afterwards, it reverted to that 

 same 'Alamgiri [standard of] weight/' 



Of the statement made in the last part of the second sen- 

 tence also, we have unexpected confirmation in the weight of 

 the copper coin of Akbarabad mint (210 grs.) which Mr. White- 

 head has attributed, on apparently good grounds, to Farrukl 

 Siyar (Num. Sup. XV, art 89, p. 663). 



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S. H. HODIVALA. 



Junagadh. 



176. Some Heavy Rupees of Bahadur Shah Shah 'Alam I. 



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I should like to say a few words about a matter to which 

 my attention was drawn only the other day, while turning over 

 the leaves of the Indian Museum Catalogue. In it are registered 

 four Rupees of Bahadur Shah Shah 'Alam I (Nos. 1666, 1666a 

 [1122 a.h. IV. R], No. 1667 [1123 a.h. V. R] and No. 1668 

 [1124 a.h. VI. R]), of which the actual weights are 184 and 

 185 grs. It is true that all the four coins come from the same 

 mint — f Azimabad Patna, — and one may be inclined to pass them 



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