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C. J. Rodgers —Mogul Copper Coins. 
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Mogul Copper Coins. —By C. J. Rodgers, Honorary Numismatist to the 
Government of India. 
With twelve plates. 
[Read July, 1895.] 
I have already written three papers on the Copper Coins of Akbar, 
two in this Journal and one in the Indian Antiquary. In the Indian 
Museum are many coins of Akbar and of other Mogul Emperors. 
There is a vast collection of Mogul Copper Coins in the Lahore Museum. 
The catalogues of the coins in these two museums are ready and can be 
studied. 
Mr. Stanley Lane Poole in the preface to the British Museum 
Catalogue of Mogul Coins says, “ The rarest of all Mogul Coins are those 
of copper.” This sentence should read, “ The rarest of all Mogul Coins, 
in the British Museum , are those of copper.” It was a mistake to regard 
the British Museum Mogul Coins as a representative collection. It had 
in it forty copper coins only. Now my papers should have given an 
inkling as to the numbers of Mogul Copper Coins obtainable. My 
catalogue of the Lahore Museum coins (purchased from me by the 
Panjab Government) shows how numerous the copper coins of many 
Mogul Emperors are. The truth is that these copper Mogul coins are 
so uncouth in shape and the legends on them are so fragmentary, that 
numismatists have neglected them and collectors have despised them. 
But of late some kind and sensible correspondents of mine have paid 
attention to them. I live in the Panjab, and as I get no pay I cannot 
go about hunting for coins in other provinces. But the Rev. Geo. 
P. Taylor, D.D., of Ahmadabad, R. F. Malabarwala, Esq., and C. E. 
Kotwal, Esq., of Bombay, Major Adam Smith of Poonah, and the 
Rev. J. E. Tracy, M.A., of Kodaikanal, Madura District, have kindly 
sent up to me some of the results of their research, and the consequence 
has been that with their aid and with the assistance of the Amritsar 
bazaar, I have been able to put together the drawings in the accompany¬ 
ing twelve plates. The coins are therein arranged in no special order, but 
