Vol. I, No. 4.] Numismatic Supplement. 138 
[W. 8.] 
Obv. Rev. 
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(vi) Shah’Alam II. Pl. IV. 16. 
AR. 
Weight, 179 grains. 
Size, °9. 
Mint, Allahabad. 
Date, 1172 (?)-—Ahd. 
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H. N. WaiaGat. 
40. Two double rupees of Surat Mint. 
Mr. R. F. Malabarwala, of Bombay, has sent me for publication 
a double rupee of the Strat Mint struck in the name of Alam- 
gir Il. The Hijra date is unfortunately wanting, but the 
regnal year on the reverse fixes it as 1176 or 1177. Belowisa 
description of the coin. As far as I know, the only other double 
rupee known is the one in the cabinet of Dr, G. P. Taylor of 
Ahmadabad, which he has kindly permitted me to describe in this 
note. 
Rupees of the type of the Siirat rupee of the Moghul Emperors 
were coined by the Bombay Mint. Mr. Thurston in his History 
of the Hast India Company’s Coinage says (page 43): ‘The 
Nawab’s rupees, however, were soon found to contain 10, 12 or 
even 15 per cent. of alloy, in consequence of which the Bombay 
rupees were melted down and recoined at Sirat. The coinage 
of silver in the Bombay Mint was suspended for twenty years, and 
the Siratis alone were seen in circulation. At length in 1800 
(1214 A.H.) the Company ordered the then Strat rupee to be 
struck at Bombay.” As both the present rupees were issued before 
1780 A.D. (1194 A.H.) it cannot be definitely stated whether they 
were struck by the Mughal Emperors whose names they bear or 
issued from the Bombay Mint. 
Cen Comes Ue bi V9: 
Weight, 349 grains. 
Size, 1'0 
Mint, Strat. 
