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heavier, by one-sixth, than an English struck pice which sells at 64 per 
rupee. At this rate silver is about 72 times dearer than copper. I am 
inclined to think this is the ratio which obtained in olden times. If so, 
my calculations with respect to the income of Akbar will have received 
strong confirmation. 
Additional Note. 
There are three transliterations which demand explanation, those on 
the Dera Ghkii Khan coins. In my paper the coin I have given was 
ascribed, according to the most learned Panjabi I could get hold of, to 
Tegh Bahadur. I confessed in my paper that I was not satisfied with this 
reading. After my paper was sent off, I again visited the bazaar, in the 
hope that I might find some clue to the deciphering of this to me then 
unique coin. I got without any difficulty no less than 25 coins of this 
description, and I at once began to compare them with each other. Then 
I found that one coin had a little of the top line, another a little of the 
bottom one, a third a little of the right middle line, and a fourth a portion 
of the left of the coin, and thus I found out that the coins were struck at 
Dera Ghdzi Khan. The other transliterations require no notice. . 
Since this paper was in the press, I have found out rupees bearing the 
name of Bam, struck in Lundi and also Gurmulchi and Sanscrit. I have 
also obtained one rupee, struck at Jhang , and several struck at Bind Dddan 
Khan. I have also seen some gold mohurs in the Lahore Museum struck 
in Gurmukhi with the same dies as some of the commonest pice, apparently. 
I have also found some rupees of years not mentioned in the paper, notably 
one of Multan struck in the year of the capture of that city A. D. 1818 
= A. S. 1875, and one of Amritsar struck in 1856 A. S. The subject is 
not yet exhausted, long and prosy though this paper has been. 
The whole of the Sikh coins, gold, silver and copper, in my collection, 
have been purchased by the Panjab Government for the Lahore Museum. 
Thus two subjects I had in view have been accomplished. (1) An account 
of the coins of the Sikhs. (2) The possession by the Provincial Museum 
of the coins of its own province. Of course there should be in the Impe¬ 
rial Museum at Calcutta a duplicate collection. 
