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3. On some more copper coins of Akbar. — By Charles J. Rodgers. 



(Abstract.) 

 This paper is a continuation of one on the copper coins of Akbar 

 written by Mr. Rodgers in 1881. The following coins of Akbar have 

 been described in these two papers : — -the one tanke, the two tanke, the 

 one tanke, the damn, the damra, the futiis, the mohur, the tankah, the half 

 tankah, the quarter tankah, the one-eighth of a tanka, the one- sixteenth 

 of a tanka, and the nisfe. Mr. Rodgers quotes a letter from General Cun- 

 ningham in which General Cunningham shows that Akbar's revenue 

 could not have exceeded 16 crores, taking Mzam-ud- din's murade tankas 

 to be the same as the common dams of Akbar. 



This paper will be published in the Journal, Pt. I. 



4. Notes on some Coins found in Omercote, Sind, similar to those 

 styled " Gadhia ha paisa." — By E. Leggett. 

 (Abstract.) 

 Though numbers of coins of the class dealt with in Mr. Leggett's 

 paper have for years past been found in large numbers throughout Guja- 

 rat, Malwa and Kathiawad, they still remain practically unidentified. The 

 latest endeavour to assign them a place in numismatic chronology appears 

 to have been made by Pandit Bhagvanlal Indraji in Vol. XII of the Bom- 

 bay Asiatic Society's Journal. The Pandit concludes that these coins be- 

 long to the Chalukyan dynasty, between the years 600 and 800 A. D., and 

 the supposed origin of the Gadhia design is established by shewing the 

 gradual change of the Persian head on the obverse and the fire altar on the 

 reverse of the Sassanians into the oblong button and the series of dots and 

 lines found on the Gadhia coins. Mr. Leggett in his paper, however, en- 

 deavours to refute the prevailing ideas on the subject of these coins, viz., 

 that they are Gadhia coins, that the figure on the obverse is a debased 

 imitation of the Persian head, that the lines on the reverse represent the 

 Sassanian fire altar and that they belong to the Chalukyan dynasty. In 

 April 1882, 472 coins of this class were found by some convicts in an old 

 burial-ground near the Pooran Bhora in Umarkote. Mr. Leggett was 

 enabled to purchase these coins from Government and on a careful exa- 

 mination of the various types included in the collection came to the opi- 

 nion that the signs and symbols on them were of a purely Buddhistic 

 character. All numismatists treating of these coins have cited Mr. 



