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Of the Muhammadabad Benares Mint there were coins of the 
l6th regnal year, and of each regnal year from the 18th to the 30th — 
f d ; ; 
Rupees of Katak of Muhammad Shah, of Jahangirnagar of 
Muhammad Shih, and ’Alamgir II, and of Mingir of Shah ‘Alam 
Il have not, as far as I know, been previously found. 
The find further contained a rupee of Alamgir II of Calcutta 
mintage, arupee of Shah Alam II of Allahabad, with a date which, it 
seems tome, must be read as .H., z.e., two years before he 
ascended the throne of Dehli; and a rupee of Shah Jahan III of 
Azimabad, dated 1174 A.H. 
e Mingir rupee of Shah ‘Alam I calls for special notice. In 
Dr. White King and Captain Vost’s paper “Some Novelties in 
Moghul Coins,” published in the Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. XVI, 
a dim of Akbar was described and gured, on which the mint 
‘name Manghir pile was read, though no‘ ye’ is visible in the 
Eaton of the coin lace was identified with Monghyr 
m De 
hie Ss 
ngal. The latter, however, is always in Persian characters 
Spelt yahiy0, and this is the spelling found on the coin of Shah 
‘Alam II in the Manbhim find. It seems certain, therefore, that 
the mint town of the copper coin of Akbar above mentioned cannot 
have been Monghyr in Bengal. It is more probable that it was 
“ Manghar,” a fort built by Islam Shah Siri, 76 miles north of 
- Amritsar (see Thomas’s Chronicles, page 414). This would ac- 
count for the Siri type of the reverse. é 
The Allahabad rupee of Shah ’Alam II, dated 1172 A.H., is 
puzzling. Itis, I understand, not the first found, but I have myself 
Seen no other. In Elliot and Dawson’s History of India, Vol, 
. 
VIII, page 172, it is stated that in the 5th year of Epa 
age 12). After his defeat at Buxar and the signing of the 
Treaty of Allahabad in 1765 A.D. (1178-79 A.H.) the latter 
Place became the headquarters of Shah ’Alam for some years. 
aR (i) Muhammad Shah. Pl. IV. 11. ~ 
Weight, 179 grains. 
