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APPENDIX. 
IV. 
Some Account of the gold Medals, said/erroneously, by Tavernier 
and other Writers, to have been coined in one day by Nur Jehan 
Begum, Queen of Jehangir ; communicated in a Letter from Major 
Gore Ousel ey; referred to in p. 1^0. 
" The tradition of their having been coined by Nur Jehan Begum, 
the Queen of Jehangir, is preposterous in itself, and totally discre- 
dited by all the natives of science and research I have ever had any 
opportunity of conversing with on the subject. It is supposed by 
the more enlightened natives, that the Emperor, on the celebration 
of the anniversary of his birth or reign, ordered medals to be 
struck with the sign of the Zodiac in w hich the sun was when such 
anniversary occurred, which his long reign, and the difference of 
solar and lunar years, would easily have allowed to pass through 
the whole number. I am persuaded that they were medals, and not 
a coin for current purposes. Annexed is the inscription, in verse, 
as it should be read. All, that I have ever seen, have been struck 
at Agra. - 
The following is a translation ; . 
*' The face of gold received ornament in Agra, 
" From (the name of) Jehangir Shah, the son of King Acber/' 
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