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C. J. Roclgers — Note on a " nisdr'' of Shah Jahan. [June, 



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Chips or flakes. 



Burnt flake. 



Arrow-head, burnt and charred. 



Scraper, burnt. 



Charcoal. 



Piece of pottery with a design. 



A curious fact in connection with these fragments is that most of the 

 flints bear traces of a fierce fire to which they were evidently subjected 

 after they had been chipped. Many are cracked and splintered. 



The Memorandum was illustrated by photographs of antiquarian 

 remains in Morbihan, and a map of the Isle of Er-Lannig. 



In accordance with Mr. Hivett-Carnac's wishes, these specimens will 

 be made over to the Indian Museum. 



Dr. A. F. R. HoEBNLE read the following note by Mr. C. J. Rodgers 

 on a nisdr of Shah Jahan in the Delhi Museum : 



" This nisdr is a remarkable coin. One of the nisars of Jaliangir 

 drawn is apparently one-eighth of a rupee in weight. One of those of 

 Aurangzeb is also of the same weight, and one a sixteenth. But this one 

 is a half-rupee in weight, weighing as it does 86 grains. I discovered 

 it in the Dehli Museum Collection in the latter part of 1880. It was in 

 the strong box wrapped up in a small bit of paper along with some other 

 coins. All the coins in the Dehli museum are kept in this same strong 

 box. We can judge of the amount of interest shown in the coins of this 

 collection from the fact that for two whole years no one had ever asked to 

 see them. No one knows of their existence. They are not visible to 

 ordinary visitors. To all intents and purposes the collection would be 

 just as useful were it away from Dehli. There is no catalogue of the 

 coins. The whole of our Museums need to be worked up and to be con- 

 verted into institutions from which instruction and pleasure may be derived 

 by their supporters, the public. 



