1896.] C. J. Rodgers— Rare Kashmir Coins. 225 
the coin of this man, given in General Sir A. Cunningham’s Medixval 
Coins of India, and this also along with No. 4, for Mr. King. 
The dates 874 and 876 indicate the dates of Haidar Shah and his 
son Hasan Shah respectively. I have seen these dates so often on the 
coins of these kings, that we must accept them as correct. I hada 
lovely gold mohur of Hasan Shah son of Haidar Shah struck in Kash- 
mir in 876 H. The silver coins, too, given in my paper, bear these two 
dates. Idonot think that they would, unless these were the actual 
dates when they were reigning. 
No. 14 is a coin of Akbar’s dated 994 H., which must be about the 
date of the final conquest of Kashmir by Akbar’s troops. I have seen 
Akbar’s Kashmir coins struck as early as 965, and one dated 987 H. 
These must be either complimentary coins, or else coins struck by factions 
who were plotting against their rulers and desirous of obtaining Akbar 
for their king. 
I should like to see a complete collection of Kashmir coins in some 
Indian Museum. They are not of much value, as I have shown else- 
where, for the assistance they render in fixing the chronology, but they 
are at any rate evidence of what was going on in Kashmir, and of its 
condition and of the state of art. Of course visitors to Kashmir 
purchase coins amongst other curiosities in the valley. Just lately I 
have received from one of these purchasers a list of the names of the 
kings of Kashmir whose coins he had obtained. There were twenty of 
them, and not one was the name of a Kashmir Raja or Sultan. This 
shows how visitors are cheated. Lately, however, I had sent to me from 
the mint at Jammii over 6,000 coins to classify and value. They were 
real things, and if I have time before I leave India, I may send the 
Society an abstract of what I had then before me. It was a thorough 
numismatic feast, and I have not yet quite recovered from it. 
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