JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I.—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
No. I.—1886. 
Some Gopper Goins of AJcbar found in the Kdngrd district.—Bg 
E. E. Oliver, M. I. C. E., M. R. A. S., &c. 
(With two Plates.) 
While on tour last cold weather as I was just leaving the Kangri. 
Valley a haniyd from Chintpurni, a village on the boundary line separat¬ 
ing the Kangra from the Hoshiyarpur district, brought up to my camp a 
large bag of the copper coins of Akbar, numbering several hundred. All 
had been found together and were in excellent preservation, the lettering 
and ornamentations being almost as sharp as if fresh from the mint. Al¬ 
though struck at widely distant places and considerably differing dates, the 
larger portion of them could hardly have been long in circulation. They 
might not improbably have formed a part of one of the bags of 1,000 
paisa which Bernier says, in Aurangzeb’s time at least, were kept ready 
for distribution, and have been sent up to the valley for the payment 
of troops during one of the Mughal expeditions under Jehangir or Shah 
Jehan, and have lain hid away ever since. 
A selection of 90 or 100 of the best resulted in the following list 
of mints and months, and from these again I give in a couple of plates 
some 30, which may be of interest in continuation of recent papers on 
similar coins by Mr. Rodgers in the pages of this Journal. 
ILAHt ” YEARS. 
Nos. Wt. Month. Mint. Year. 
SI'S. ^ r Ob. 
1 312 Farwardin A^ak Banaras 41 j 
318 .. 40 
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