12 C. J. RodgcJrs -i\'^<>^d5 on a List of Silver Coins. [Jan., 



throne. In case of the years on the rupees struck at Golconda there is 

 great disparity. There is one of the 1st year : that may be right. It 

 has on it 10G9, but Aurangzeb had not then conquered it. The rupee 

 of the 14th year has 1076 on it, which is the 8th year of the reign. 



3. The Nutliars. I am exceedingly fortunate in being able to give 

 four of these coins. The inscriptions and weights show what they were, 

 money scattered amongst the crowd. The word nuthdr ( jtii ) means 

 anything scattered about. I do not know of any other cabinet which con- 

 tains one of these interesting little pieces. The inscriptions on Nos. 89 

 and 90 are very much cut. Those on 87 and 88 are perfect. The weights 

 are equivalent to whole nuthdrs, half nuthdrs and quarter nuthdrs, but all 

 have the word nuthdr alone on them. No. 88 I obtained by exchange 

 from the cabinet of Alexander Grant, Esq. The others were obtained in 

 the Panjab. It seems Jahangir was the first to make these coins. I have 

 of his three of exquisite beauty struck at Ajmir, Ahmadabad and Dar-ul- 

 Khilafat Agrah in the 10th, 13th and 14th years, i, e., in 1024, 1027 and 

 1028 A. H. I have also two of Shah Jahan's struck at Kashmir and 

 Lahore. I have never seen any others. Akbar struck small silver coins. 

 1 have one weighing only 8"5 grs. It was struck at Dehli in the month 

 of Ardi Bihisht of the Ilahi year 38. It has no sign of the word jlii on 

 it. Where all these scattered coins have gone to is a most interesting ques- 

 tion. I asked Pandit Ratan Narain of Dehli, who is a great collector, if 

 he had yet obtained one of any king : he said he had not. There is one 

 of Shah Jahan in the Museum at Dehli as large in size as an eight anna 

 piece. But I could not obtain permission to take it home and draw it. 

 It is the finest I have yet seen so far as size is concerned, but those 

 of Jaliangir's excel it in matter of execution. I copied the inscriptions on 

 it : they are, — 



Obverse. Keverse. 



I have not the slightest doubt that in collections in India there are 

 many such coins which up to the present have not been noticed. 



Tiie Chairman observed that he must confess he could not see much 

 use in collecting a rupee of each year of an Emperor's reign : he considered 

 a collection of mints very useful, as it would show what were in those 

 times considered towns of importance. Mr. Rodgers had stated that he 

 presumed that there would be great difiiculty in making a collection of the 

 shillings of each year of the reign of George III. There certainly would 

 be, for there were only, in that long reign of sixty years, eight years in 



