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C. J. Rodgers — Co])j)er Coins of Ahhar. 



[No. 4, 



No. Wt. in grs. 



j Obv. Zarh i Fuliis i Attah Bandras. 

 ( Kev. Amr Dad, 37 Ihthi. 

 { Obv. Zarh i Fulus i Ldlior. 

 \ Rev. Sliahreivar, 43 Ilalii. 

 ( Obv. Zarh i Fulus i Ldlior. 



\ Rev. 38 IlaU. 



( Obv. Zarh i Fidi'is i Ndrnol. 

 \ Rev. Nulisad wa sliast iva null. 

 ( Obv. Fulus i Kdhul. 

 \ Rev. San, 33 Ilald. 

 ( Obv. Fulus. 

 \ Rev. Urdu zafarfarin. 

 ( Obv. Zarh i Ddr ul Kliildfat, A'grah. 

 \ Rev. Fi san i nulisad iva sliast loa. 

 ( Obv. Damri. 

 { Rev. 83 IlaU. 



( Obv. Zarh i Delili, Sikka i Ahhar Slidln. 

 { Rev. Mdh i zi, 43 Halii. 



28«. The space between the two lines shows the thickness of No. 28. 



It will be at once seen that each of these coins with the exception of 

 No. 26, has its own designation upon it. Thus Nos. 1 and 2 are called 

 do tdnhe pieces ; No. 3 is a yak tdnlce piece. No. 4 is a ddm. Nos. 

 5 — 1.7 inclusive and Nos. 22 — 25 inclusive axe fulus pieces. No. 27, is a damri. 

 Nos. 18, 19 and 28 are called Sikka i Akhar Slidlii. The ievm fulus is 

 applied to coins varying from 37 to 326 grains, one struck at Kabul weigh- 

 ing 149. The word f lias in Arabic means want, indigence, hence fals or 

 fils, a small coin, an obolus, money given to relieve poverty, or small change 

 or copper, as we say in English.* Fulus is the plural of fals. The first 

 coin I have seen ^ith fulus upon it is dated 946 A. H. It is evident that 

 a term used so loosely as is this one could never have been brought for- 

 ward in accounts or revenue statements. 



Again the sikka has three weights 625"5 grains and 327 and 315 grs. 

 I have three which I have not figured which weigh little more than 37 

 grains each. Hence sikka could not well be used as a definite value. 



We have left the c?a«/, and tdnke. We know that the last of 



these was a name applied to coins from the time of Mahmud of Ghazni. 

 We know also that tdnkes were of two kinds, silver and copper. The 

 weights of tdnkes varied as did also their values. The tdnkes of Sikandar 

 Lodi were of different mixtures of silver and copper. Sometimes they 

 contained only a little more than a grain and a half of silver in each, 

 sometimes as much as eight grains and sometimes as much as sixteen, 

 seventeen or even thirty-two. Hence it is evident that such coins could 



* [This derivation is doubtful. For fals signifies a fish scale as well as a copper 

 coin. Eu,] 



20 316 



21 295 



22 39 



23 37 



24 149 



25 385 



26 140 



27 40 



28 625-5 



