122 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. |April, 1905. 
This unique mohur was acquired from a Hindu priest 
shortly after the last Magh Mela at Allahabad, to which it is said 
to have been brought by a pilgrim from Bengal. No coins from 
the Hajipir Mint were previously known. The place is situated 
in the Muzaffarptr District, Bengal, and lies on the east bank of 
the Little Gundak, a short distance above its confluence with the 
Ganges opposite Patna. Hajiptr figures conspicuously in the 
history of the struggles between Akbar and his rebellious Afghan 
governors of Bengal, having been twice besieged and captured by 
the Imperial troops in 1572 and again in 1574 A. D. This mohur 
was struck in 1575, when apparently order was again restored. It 
is in fine condition and of the type of the mohur illustrated as 
Figure 65, Plate III. of the British Museum catalogue of Coins of 
the Mughal Emperors. 
Gi) Metal, Gold. Pl. IV. 3. 
Weight, 167 grains. 
Mint, Jaunptr. 
Date, 988 A.H. 
This is, | believe, the only square mohur of Akbar known 
from the Jaunpir Mint. His square rupees from the same mint 
are extremely rare. The date on this mohur appears in the right- 
hand lower corner of the obverse—a comparatively rare occurrence. 
(111) Metal, Silver. PI. IV. 4. 
Weight, (looped. ) 
Mint, Jaunpitr-Chaitaur. 
Date, 976 A.H. 
This strange combination of names has long been a puzzle to 
me, which I have not yet succeeded in solving. There seems no 
doubt about the reading, and the coiniscertainly genuine. It is of 
the usual type of Akbar’s broad rupees from the Jaunpur Mint 
(No. 96, Plate TV of the B.M. Catalogue), but with this difference 
that, while the name Jaunpiir appears in the usual place in the 
lower margin of the reverse, the word Chaitaur occurs in the upper 
margin on the same side of the coin. Hitherto only copper coins 
of Akbar were known from the Chaitaur Mint and none with two 
mint names. Silver coins of Sher Shah are known from the 
Jahanpanah-Ujjain Mint. This coin was acquired in Lahore 
some years ago. 
(iv) Metal, Silver. Pl. IV. 5. 
Weight, 44 grains. 
Mint, Lahore. 
Date, 987 A.H. 
The inscription on one side of this coin reads ast aU} “ Akbar 
is God” and not the usual aut a5} “ God is great.” A four-anna 
piece with a similar legend was published by Dr. L. White King 
and Captain Vost in 1896 in the paper already referred to, but 
although it bore the same year, it was from the Ahmadabad Mint. 
