Vol. I, No. 4.] Numismatic Supplement. 138 
[N. 8.] 
Obv. Rev. 
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Tha) “a 
(vi) Shah’Alam II. Pl, IV. 16. 
R. 
Weight, 179 grains. 
Size, °9. 
int, Allahabad. 
Date, 1172 (?)-—Ahd. 
Obverse. (tvt Sy'x0 Bw sie sasl pile xls 
Reverse, s!t hy yd Gayle weniewe Cagle oat tin 
H. N. Wrrieut. 
40. Two double rupees of Strat Mint. 
gr Il, The Hijra date is unfortunatel fwantig but the 
regnal year on il Biase fixes it as 1176 or 1177. Below isa 
description of the coin. As far as I know, sia aabellak double 
own is ties one in the cabinet of Dr, G, P. Taylor of 
sdmadsbad, which he has kindly stilted me to describe in this 
_ Rupee of the type of ea ae rupee of the Moghul Emperors 
ined by the Bombay Mr. Thurston in his History 
of 1 the East India apa ee says (page 43): “The 
awab’s rupees, however, were soon found to contain 10, 12 or 
sen 15 per cent. of alloy, in eet br of which the Bombay 
rupees were melted down and recoined at Sirat. The coinage 
of silver in the Bombay Mint was deme hy for twenty pots ~ 
in ci i n in 
- GG) 46: fF. 7.) £1 ¥. 8. 
Weight, 349 grains. 
Size, 1°0. sca 
Mint, Strat. 
