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C. J. Rodgers — On some more Copper Coins of Akbar. [No. 1, 
Thomas began his reasoning with an assumption that “ there can 
be very little contest about the value of Nizam-ud-Din’s pieces designa¬ 
ted as Tankah-i-Muradi.’’ He takes them to be the same as the old 
Sikandari tanka of twenty to the rupee (p. 7, Akbar’s Revenues) which 
is certainly wrong. He assumes that they were so ; but gives no proofs, 
nor even any arguments. 
Now let us examine the facts :— 
He Laet gives Akbar’s revenue on Jahangir’s accession in two 
forms : thus :— 
VI. Arab et 98 caror Dam. 
or III. Arab et 49 caror Tangarum. 
Now here is a new proof of 1 Tanga = 2 Dams. 
Abul Fazl’s collected amounts 
come to 
Nizam-ud-Din’s statement 
De Laet’s statement 
Arabs kross taklis. 
5, 
67, 
63 
83, 
383 dams. 
6, 
40, 
00 
00, 
000 
muradi tan 
kas. 
6, 
98, 
00 
00, 
000 
dams. 
Put in this way it seems clear to me that Nizam-ud-Din’s muradi 
tanlcas , are the common darris of Akbar. I do not understand the name 
of Muradi , but I think it possible that there may be a mistake in this 
name ; and for the following reason :— 
I have two copper coins of Akbar, like your No. 15,—but both of 
them used jy° muhr instead of zarb. Muhr-i-Ilahdbds , the stamp or 
coin of Ilahdbds. (See No. 13 of my present plate, which I have drawn 
from a perfect coin of my own two, illustrate this portion of General 
Cunningham’s letter.) The name of the coins would then become 
Muhrawi, and hence I take them to be the real pieces inten¬ 
ded by the corrupt name of Muradi. Can you refer to any MS. of 
the Tabaqat-i-Akbari ? 
Had Nizam-ud-din intended the tankas of Akbar, there was no 
necessity for calling them by any other name than simply tankas , as 
written on the coins themselves. But as dam was a new name, intro¬ 
duced by Akbar himself, it seems highly probable that the coins of 
the same weight as Akbar’s dams were previously known as tankas with 
some qualifying title. (In fact Sher Shah’s 320 grain coins were called 
tankas .) 
(By the way my two heavy (640 grain) tankahs of Akbar are not 
from your Dehli mint but from Bairat, as I read the name—I will of 
course send them to you.) 
Now as to Akbar’s revenue. Turn to Thomas, p. 52 and add up 
Shah Jalnin’s revenues from the same provinces as Akbar held. The 
