1852.] Note on Col. Stacey's Ghazni Coins. 121 



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Dr. A. Fleming in his Diary of a Trip to Pind Dadun Khan, and 

 the Salt Range, published in a previous number of the Journal Asiatic 

 Society (Vol. 18th p. 661) gives a very complete description of the 

 method of coining in use in the Mint at Pind Dadun Khan in 1848. 

 The process indeed is the essential counterpart of that described by 

 Abul Faz'l as obtaining in Akber's time. 



If we may also assume that similar mechanical means were resorted 

 to in the earlier days to which the above tale refers, we may satisfy 

 ourselves of how easy it would have been to have had a mint in every 

 house and how difficult it would be to prevent the issue by private 

 individuals of money of an inferior standard. 



Masaud. 



No. B. [To precede No. lviii.] Gold— Mr. Bardoe Elliot. 



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