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tlieir connexion with the Central Government. 1 It seems strange that 
the fish is found only on the coins of Shah ‘Alam and in the arms of the 
kings of Lncknow. (110) is of the Islamabad mint. This name belongs 
to several towns in India. I do not believe that this coin came from 
Chittagong, but from some town in the N.-W. Provinces. We read 
“ Muttra changed its name to Islamabad and was thus called in all 
official documents, as well as by the people.” Elliot Yol. VII. p. 26. 
(Ill) is a strange coin. It is of Akbarabad and has on it J. W. H. 
John William Hessing was Commander of the Fort of Agra. He died 
in 1803, the year the English took the Fort. He had been a soldier 
of fortune. There is a very good sketch of bis life in Compton’s book 
on Military Adventurers in India. (112) I took this coin to be one of 
Monghir, but I fancy I am mistaken. From the Najlbabad mints both 
(113) and (114) were issued. On the smaller size the fish is often 
represented as standing up and not as here lying to the r. 
Plate XXI.—(115)—(118) are coins of two sizes from the Saharanpur 
mint in the latter part of the reign of Shah ‘Alam II. (119) was produced 
in the Mominabad mint, but I cannot say what the mint name is on (120). 
Coins (121)-(126) are of Akbar II. (121) has the name of the 
Akbarabad mint on it and the pistol. (122) was struck in Gwallar. 
The sword, with its point over the ^ of is a peculiarity of this 
coin. Coins with the sword in that position are very common, but coins 
bearing the mint name are very rare. (123)-(126) were struck 
in Shahjahanabad. They are about the same in weight as the rupees 
of Akbar II. (125) is peculiar since it has an English letter S instead 
of the Arabic word on it for year. (126) reverts to the use of . 
Plate XXII.—The upper half of this plate contains six coins of Shah 
‘Alam II all from the Shahjahanabad mint. All have the fish on them 
except (127), (130) has a date on it | which must be intended for I I vp 
as the regnal year is 1. I think | and v have been inadvertently joined 
together. The date on (131) is certainly 1125 though the regnal year 
is 33. 1125 would make the coin one of Farrukhsivar. Pistol pice of 
Shah ‘Alam II, are shown in coins (133)—(135), the two first being from 
the Akbarabad mint. (136) is a fine specimen of a coin of Shah ‘Alam 
II from the Bindraban mint. There is a different specimen with a fish 
on it, in Plate XII (147) from the same mint. There is no mint at all 
on (137) but we cannot be far wrong if we assign it to Bhartpur, the 
symbol of that place being the kitar whicli occupies the field of the 
reverse. The symbols on (138) a trisul and standing fish, belong to 
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1 [It may be worth mentioning that the sign manual of the great Darblianga 
Raj is a fish ( mahi ). Ed.] 
