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1896. | C. J. Rodgers— Rare Kashmir Coins. 
Rare Kashmir Coins.— By Cuas. J. Ropcers, Honorary Numismatist to 
the Government of India, Honorary Member of the Numismatic Society 
of London, Se. 
(With Plate VI.) 
[Read May, 1896. ] 
It is now several years, since I published my “ Copper Coins of the 
Maharajas and Sultans of Kashmir.” Since then I have seen many 
thousands more of their coins. Further acquaintance with them has 
not given me more exalted ideas of the art of the Kashmiris. They 
certainly were the worst die-sinkers in the world. But die-sinkers are 
only mechanics, and from mechanics oppressed as were those whose 
homes were in Kashmir, much could not be expected. I have not 
troubled myself much about getting Kashmir novelties. Those drawn 
in the accompanying plate are almost the only new things I have seen 
in seventeen years. They are as follows :— 
AVY (876 H.) 
(2) 8 ss (Sirinagar ) wl r= (4-Ilahi) 
got 
(3) be St w'bld haus (95) 7 H. 
BLS edles| HHS Sys (Kashmir) 
(4) aa we <4 
(5) 4 (eq) i, 
(6) edt i. (40th Tah.) 8 cay (Sirinagar ) 
J1d5"I ye 
(7) 3l& yore weey)) 62S Gail not full 
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