134. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (April, 1905. 
Date, [1172] 5th regnal year. 
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41. “ Mumbai-Stirat” ( “99 gto ) or “ Mahisiir ( )5” cs¢? ) 
which ? 
Grave doubt should, it seems to me, be entertained re- 
garding the existence of the so-called “ Mumbai-Surat”’ Mint. 
And for the following five reasons :— 
1. The only coin attributed to this mint is the quarter-rupee 
registered as No. 80 on page 280 of the British Museum “ Cata- 
logue of Indian Coins, Moghul Emperors. ” 
2. Neither element of this compound-name, “ Mumbai-Sirat, ” 
can be regarded as an adjectival epithet subordinate to the other 
element. We have here co-ordination pure and simple, produced 
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 
no other instance of a name built up in this agglutinative fashion. 
3. If the legend given in the British Museum Catalogue is 
true to the original, then amongst contemporary coins this quarter- 
rupee is exceptional in recoding the name of its mint s¢mpliciter, 
without the prefixed term “ darb, "Wy 
4, The crescent symbol here present, when found on other 
coins of this period, is held to be a mint-mark distinctive of the 
