134 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1905, 
Date, [1172] 5th regnal year, 
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Weight, 350 grains. 
Size 1:0, 
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Date, [1176] 4th regnal year. 
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H. N. Weight. 
41. “ Mumbai-Sarat” { 299 (gto ) or “ Mahisar (o~ ws): 
which ? 
Grave doubt should, it seems to me, be entertained a 
garding the existence of the so-called “ Mumbai-Surat’’ Mint. 
And for the following five reasons :— 
_,° the only coin attributed to this mint is the quarter -rupee 
registered as No. 80 on page 280 of the British Museum “ Cata- 
by the mere juxtaposition of the names of two distinct mint 
towns. In the long list of the Mughal Mints in India I can recall 
true to the original, then amongst contemporary coins this quarter- 
rupee is exceptional in recor ding the name of its mint sémpliciter, 
without the prefixed term “ darb,  syad Z 
- The crescent symbol here present, when found on other 
coins of this period, is held to be a mint-mark distinctive of the 
