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The last four words are a hemistich in Khafif, and shdh evidently 

 rhymes with jah. But for Marsden's daulat, his plate has clearly ba 

 daulat ; hence, assisted by the metre we conjecture that the correct 

 reading is 



" The Padishah of the country, A'zam Shah, strikes coins in power 

 and dignity." 



10. Marsden, pp. 658, 659. Two coins of Jahandar Shah. The 

 correct reading is — 



— a verse in common Mutaqarib. Vide Thomas, Useful Tables, p. 47. 



11. Marsden, p. 060. It is impossible from Marsden's plate to fix 

 the correct reading, though there is no doubt that his reading is wrong. 

 If the inscription is a verse, _y*J=> zafar must rhyme with^A*** siyar. 

 But it looks as if the coin contained the word ^Uf^^ks ' Azimdbad 

 (Patna), not oUJu-jJle ' * Azimushshan, the name of Farrukh Siyar's 

 father. 



12. Marsden, p. 661. A silver coin of Farrukh Siyar. Marsden 

 reads (vide Useful Tables, p. 47.) — 



y. ij 3 ^- $»zk*j%* £j* jjj pt^y. iij *^» cJ*" tLa#ji 



But as the inscription is a verse in short Ramal, ( — u 



— O , — V — ) we have to transpose, 



13. Marsden, p. 672. A gold coin of 'Alamgir II. Marsden 

 has omitted to give a facsimile of this coin ; but his reading is pal- 

 pably wrong ; vide his correct reading on p. 675. Similarly four in- 

 scriptions enumerated in U. T. pp. 48, 49, as remarked by Mr. Thomas 

 in the footnote. 



It looks as if Akbar's coins are the first Indian coins that contain 

 metrical inscriptions. I have not seen coins of Babar and Ilumayun 

 with verses on them. For his large gold coins, or rather medals, 

 A k bar ordered Shaikh Faizi, his court poet, to compose the quatrains 

 which are given on p. 28 of my Ain translation ; but the current coins 

 of his reign contain no metrical readings. Jahangir, as we saw, had 

 even verses put upon his rupees, and his coinage is thus distinguished 

 from that of the preceding Moghul (Chagatai) emperors. 



The coinage of the fafawis of Persia also contains occasionally, as 



