1895.] 
W. Yost— The Dogftm Mint. 
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The Dogam Mint.—By Surgeon-Captain W. Yost, I. M. Service. 
(With a Plate.) 
[Read May, 1895.] 
The map in Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole’s History of the Moghul Emper¬ 
ors of Hindustan does not shew the position of Dogam. Mr. C. J. Rodgers 
so late as 1894 has stated, “ I do not know where this place was. It is 
sometimes styled Daru-l-islam and sometimes Daru-l-khilafat. so it 
must have been a place of great importance.” 
When I came to Bahraicli (Baliraic), the number of dams of Akbar 
of this mint that I was able to collect in a few days attracted my attention. 
At Gonda, the nearest town to Bahraicli on the Faizabad side, I searched 
for them but could get comparatively few, while at Nanpara, some 22 
miles nearer the Nepal Frontier, they again were plentiful. This led me 
to believe Dogam must have been somewhere in the neighbourhood of 
either Bahraicli or Nanpara, and to inquire if anyone knew, or had tra¬ 
ditions, of such a place. In a few days I was told that in former times 
there existed a city called Doga8, 4^ miles or so to the North-West of 
Nanpara (at which there is a station on the Bengal and North-Western 
Raihvay), but that it was now represented by an insignificant village by 
name Dogo, surrounded, however, by the extensive remains of an old 
town. Every year after the rains, numbers of Dogam coins are found 
about the site on which Dogo now stands, and find their way 
to the melter’s pot. At the present time one would not have much diffi¬ 
culty in adding two to three dozen to his collection at either Nanjiara or 
Bahraicli. As this can be done at no other place I know of, I believe 
there can be little doubt the site of Dogam may now be taken as settled 
at the dih indicated. 
In the accompanying plate (Plate YI) I give coins of Akbar and 
Shall Jahan minted at Dogam. We should therefore also expect to 
discover some of Jahangir, but none are known at the present time. 
Dogam on some specimens of Akbar’s time to my thinking reads 
Dogaw ) On those of Shah Jahan, there is no doubt that Dogam 
is the correct spelling. Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole at p. liii. of 
