1893.] A. F. R. Hoernle — Note on the ‘preceding Paper. 267 
Is it possible, that there was an interval between the receipt of the 
news of the second enthronement and the receipt of the information of 
the officially fixed date, and that those exceptional coins were struck 
during that interval ? The interval could not have been of long 
duration, and this explains the paucity of those peculiar coins. One 
can easily imagine that the news of the ceremonies of the second enthrone- 
ment travelled faster, than the communication of the matters officially 
settled at that time. Still the interval must have been, at least, 
three months ; for the Hijrah year 1070 commenced on the 18th 
September 1659; and no coin, with the dates 1070 and ahad, could 
have been struck before the first month, or Muharram, of 1070 Hijrah 
(18th September to 17th October 1659), On the theory, here suggested, 
it is quite possible that also some of the extant coins, dated 1069 Hijrah 
and ahad (or 1st year) regnal, were struck by the same wrong reckoning, 
that is, after the termination of the officially fixed first year. This 
would be the case with all those coins which were struck after the 
second enthronement and during the three last months of the Hijrah 
year 1069. When once the accession was officially antedated on the 
1st Ramazan 1068, the three months after the Ramazan of 1069 (and 
in fact, that Ramazan itself) fell outside the first year of the reign. 
As the months of coining are not mentioned on Aurangzib’s coins 
(as they are on some classes of coins of his predecessors), it is now 
impossible to determine, whether any of the coins, with 1069 ahad, are 
really wrongly dated, if regard is had to the official reckoning. 
For easy reference I here re-print, from the B. M. Catalogue (p. 392), 
the portion of the comparative table of the years A. H. and A. D. which 
is in question. The month, day, and day of the week of the Christian 
year are placed under each Muhammadan month, and correspond to the 
first of that month. The week-days are lettered from A (for Sunday) 
to G (Saturday). The months are indicated by Roman numerals. 
Thus the first entry 9 X C shows that the month of Muharram 1068 
began on Tuesday the 9th October 1657. 
A. H- 
A. D. 
Muharram. 
Safar. 
Rabi’ I. 
Rabi’ II. 
Jumadi I. 
Jumadi II. 
1068 
1657 
9 X C 
8 XI E 
7 XII F 
58, 6 I A 
4 II B 
6 III D 
1069 
1658 
29 IX A 
29 X C 
27 XI D 
27 XII F 
59, 25 I G 
24 II B 
1070 
1669 
18 IX E 
18 X G 
16 XI A 
16 XII C 
60, 14 I D 
13 II F 
A. H. 
A. D. 
Rajab. 
Sha’ban. 
Ramazan. 
Shawwal. 
Zu-1- 
Qa’dah. 
Zu-I-Hijrah. 
1068 
1657 
4 IV E 
4 V.G 
2 VI A 
2 VII C 
31 VII D 
30 VIII F 
1069 
1658 
25 III C 
24 IV E 
23 V F 
22 VI A 
21 VII B 
20 VIII D 
1070 
1659 
13 III G 
12 IV B 
11 V C 
10 VI A 
9 VII F 
8 VIII A 
