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C. J. Rodgers —On the Coins of the Sikhs. 
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Mora to Pathankot and consoled himself for her loss with the charms of 
another woman, named Grulbegam, and other unmentionable loves. He, 
long before his death, became a confirmed drunkard and a more confirmed 
debauchee. Dr. Macgregor’s book reveals many weaknesses of the Sikh 
conqueror. 
The coins after the Mora series go on steadily. The Amritsar rupees 
keep to their own inscription. The Lahore rupees have the third line of 
obverse as on fig. 8. Figs. 17 and 18 (the latter on PI. YI) show the 
3rd line of the Amritsar rupee inscriptions. Fig. 8 shows the third line 
of the Lahore ones.* PI. YI, fig. 19 is a rupee struck at Multan Ddr-ul- 
Aman “the abode or gate of peace or safetjY’ The inscriptions are the 
same as those on the later Lahore rupees. The leaf is along with the 
mint town , not as in the Amritsar rupees which have the leaf for the first 
time in 1859 S., afterwards in 1866 S. and afterwards regularly as shown 
in fig. 18, pi. YI. I have not been able to trace the origin of this sign. 
Up to 1884 S. the rupees had the year on the reverse of the coins 
above the end of in This year 1884 Sr appears on all the coins of 
the next ten years and sometimes afterwards, The real year is put on the 
obverse as in fig. 20, pi. YI, where we have the figures at between 
and <jAj. I have the whole series going up to 1894 S. or rather 94 S., 
for the other figures are dropped in the obverses. Fig. 22, pi. VI, goes up 
to 1900 S. in the obverse, keeping 1884 in the reverse. 
The year 1885 S. has rupees of its own without apy year on the 
obverse. But this year is retained on the reverse of all the later Sikh 
coins, down to the year 1906 S., the date of the battle of Gujrat, the real 
date of the rupee being placed on the obverse. Fig. 25, pi. YI is of the 
year 94 S.,-but it has 1885 on the reverse. I have given it, because it has a 
katar to the right of the alif in akdl. 
Fig. 21, pi. YI calls for remark. On the obverse it has the inscription 
of fig. 1, pi. Y. On the reverse is a circle of dots in which is a leaf and 
Sambat 1884. The margin is only partly legible. Akdl is there and so is 
Kashmir. Kashmir was conquered in 18J9 A. D. = 1876 Sambat. 
Fig. 22 is worthy of notice as showing an Amritsar rupee with the 
original distich on it as on fig. 1, PI. Y. 
Fig. 23 claims separate notice. The obverse contains the inscription 
of No. 1, PI. Y in fine condition, every letter being visible. The reverse 
has two figures on it, Nanak and his Muhammadan fellow wanderer 
Mardana. Below these are the words “ Zarb-i-Lahore 1885.” But the 
real date is 93 as shown in the obverse. The origin of this retention of 
* In Plate YI, owing to some obtuseness of my own, I have put the reverses of 
coins to the left and obverses to the right, reversing the order followed in the Vth 
plate. 
