1881.] W. F. Prideaux —On the Coins of Char ih a el. 99 
273-284 ; and Dr. Mordtmann has gone still further into the question and 
has I think satisfactorily deciphered the rude Pehlevi inscription which 
appears on the reverse of some of them. I produce for exhibition to the 
meeting a specimen of the earliest class from my own collection (Plate X, 
No. 7). Of the second class which have lately become exceedingly common 
I possess a considerable quantity in England, including the unique gold 
coin figured in the plate accompanying Mr. Head’s paper (PI. XIII, Nos. 
4, 5—16). # Specimens of the third and most interesting class are still 
comparatively rare. The two coins of Kariba-el are the first of this class 
which have been exhibited before any English Society. In addition to these, 
I produce a coin of Yada’-ab Yenaf, struck at Uarh (Caripeta of Pliny ?) 
(Plate X, No. 3), and three of another king, ’Umcl4n Yehaqba^A, 
struck at Raidan (Plate X, Nos. 4, 5, 6). There are a few other 
specimens in the British Museum, and Dr. Mordtmann also possesses two 
examples of Kariba-el and a few others which are described in the paper to 
which I have adverted. The indigenous silver coinage of El-Yemen appears 
to have been succeeded by the gold and copper mintages of the Axumite 
kings of Abyssinia, who are supposed to have secured a footing in South 
Arabia towards the close of the 1st century A. D. It will be seen from 
the specimen which I produce before the meeting (Plate X, No. 8) 
that these monarchs were to a certain extent indebted to their Iiimyaritic 
predecessors for the types of their coins, which it is probable were current 
in South Arabia until the conversion of that part of the peninsula to Islam. 
On the Revenues of the Mitghul Empire.—By H. G. Keene, C. S. 
Akbar’s Revenue. 
The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Part I, No. IV, 1880, 
contained a paper by Mr. C. J. Rodgers on the Copper Coins of Akbar. 
The writer, a practical numismatist well known in Upper India, laid down 
as a principle that it must have been a necessity of the position of the 
Emperor Akbar, “ when he made a demand from his ministers for revenue 
returns,” to fix upon a standard. He gives us the description of a coin 
called the “yah tdnlcaf weighing 59 grains Troy; and he concludes that 
the 640 krors of “ moradi tanlcas ” of Nizam-ud-din Ahmad, about which 
we have heard so much, must be based on the standard of two hundred to 
the rupee and be equal to three million two hundred thousand sterling a 
year. He adds that Abul Fazl’s estimate of the revenue of the same period 
in dams will be equivalent to about the same, or three million five 
* Dr. Schlumberger (Le Tresor de Scm’d , p. 6, note 2) suggests that this is the 
same coin as that mentioned by me in the Transactions of the Soc. of Tibi. Arch. Vol. II. 
p. 5, but this is not the case. The coin sent by Capt. Miles to the Royal Asiatic Society 
from Aden was, I believe, Axumite. 
