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C. J. Rodgers— Couplets or ‘Baits’ on the coins of [No. 1, 
Some of the most beautiful coins of Jahangir were struck in La¬ 
bor. The following couplet is on several rupees in my cabinet:— 
Obv. {* r <? 
Rev. 2^" 
i. e., 1 May there always be brightness on the face of the coin of Lahor 
through the name of Jahangir Shah, (son of) Akbar. 1029, year 15/ 
I have two rupees of Agra with the following couplet:— 
Obv. 
•• 
Rev. jf 
i. e.y ‘ The face of gold received adornment at A'gra through Jahan¬ 
gir Shah, (son of) Akbar Shah.’ 
The years are 17 and 18, but with the same A. H. 1032. 
This is the couplet which occupies one side of the zodiacal coins 
of Jahangir struck in Agra. There is, however, one exception. The 
mohur with Taurus on it (the full sized one) has the following :— 
j) s/f 
i. e., 1 The coin of A'gra gave adornment to gold through Jahangir 
Shall, (son of) Akbar Shah.’ 
The Ahmadabad zodiacal coins have a somewhat different couplet:— 
jjlj jj 
i. e., ‘ Jahangir Shah, son of Akbar Shah, gave adornment to the 
gold of Ahmadabad.’ 
The couplet on the mohurs and rupees of Nur Jahan, the beautiful 
wife of Jahangir, is well-known. I give it a place in this collection :— 
Obv. jj-J) ^ar-? 
Rev. JJ jy 
i. e., By the order of Jahangir Shah gold received a hundred adorn¬ 
ments through the name of Nurjahan the chief Queen.’ 
My cabinet contains rupees of his struck at Ahmadabad, Patna, 
Lahor, and Agra. A moliui 1 have of hers has on each side a mahvabi 
lozenge, one of which contains *U and the other | *rv 
rr. One line of the couplet occupies the spaces above and 
below the lozenge. 
For the following couplet I am indebted to the author of MtiJch- 
tasar Sair-i-Gulshan-i-Hind, p. 67. It is on a rupee of Burhanpur. 
I have only Ilahi rupees with Persian months of this mint. 
