1883.] C. J. Roclgers — J^^ofes on a List of Silver Coins. 11 



ings of Dr. Ferd. Sfcoliczka. Tbe first paper was published in the Journal 

 for 1880. The author hopes that his paper will lead some of the members 

 of the Asiatic Society to look more closely at the animals of the land shells 

 of their districts, or collect them in spirits for the Museum in Calcutta, as 

 the slugs are quite unknown from many parts of India. One object in 

 publishing these drawings is to bring about a more natural classification of 

 the Indian Helicidce and Col. Godwin-Austen draws attention to Mr. 

 Blanford's paper entitled " Contributions to Indian Malacology No. XII", 

 in which Mr. Blanford makes some remarks on the same subject, with 

 which Col. Godwin- Austen quite agrees, particularly as to the importance 

 of the sections Helicarion, Macrochlamys, Arlojplianta, Eu^lecta, &c. 

 This paper will be published in the Journal, Part II. 



4. Notes on a List of Silver Coins of Aurangzeh^ Alamgir. — By C. J. 



RODGEES. 



(1). The mints and their various titles. 



MuUan is called on No. 2 " Ddr-ul-Amdn.'" *' The gate of safety or 

 peace.^^ 



Surat is called on No. 5 " Bandar-i'MuMrahy 



(It was known as *' Bdh-ul-IInjf\ " the gate of pilgrimage, ^^ because 

 from it pilgrims started for Mekka. *^ The blessed porf^ is hence a title 

 of the town). 



Burhanpur is styled on No. 6 " Baldat-i*Fdkhirah,^^ ^^ the excellent 

 towny 



Dehli is styled " Bdr-ul-Khildfaf on No. 9, &c. 



Ldhore is called " L>dr-us- Sultana f^ on No. 19, &c. 



Agrah is called " Akhardhdd^^ on No. 12. 



Kabul is called '' Ddr-ul-MuW on No. 42. 



Agrah is also called " Mustaqir-ul-Khildfaf^ on No. 58. 



Haiderdbdd is termed " Ddr-ul- Jihad'" on No. 51. 



Bujdpur is called " Ddr-ul-Zafar'' on No. 59. 



Ajmir is termed ** Ddr-ul-Khim'^ on No. 68. 



Thus we have here ten cities rejoicing in titles. 



The other mints are Golconda, Patnah, Akbarnagar, Janagarh, Au- 

 rangabad, Ahmadabad, Bhakkar, Tattah, Kambay, Sholapur, Alamgirpur, 

 Kashmir, Ettawah or Ettawa, Zafarpur, Bareilly, Lucknow, Narnol, Isla- 

 mabad, Jahangirnagar, Makhsiisabad, Sirhind and Ahmadnagar. Thus we 

 have rupees of 32 mints in all. Some were in the extremities of the Empire, 

 as Islamabad, Sholapur, Kabul, Kashmir, Jimagarh, Bhakkar and Tatta. 



(2) The years are counted evidently from 1068 the year of the deposi- 

 tion of Shah Jahan. But Aurangzeb did not exactly know whether he was 

 then reigning or not. Shah Jahan might at any time have taken the 



