1885.] 
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C. J. Rodgers —Some Coins of Ranjit Deo, 
See Plate I, fig. 2. 
Obv. I can’t decipher this 
| A j* | 
Rev. 
(c> not present). 
fig. 3. 
Ofer. Same as fig. 2, but with addition of below j 
which word is in full. 
Rev.. Same as No. 2, but year PA 
fig. 4. Obv. and Rev . same as fig. 3 with variations. 
1196 A. H. corresponds with 1781 A. D., and is on the coin the 
24th year of Shah Alam. The Samvat year 1841 corresponds with 
1784 A. D., and is on the coins the 27th and 28th years of Shah Alam. 
These coins therefore were struck about 10 years after the disagreement 
Ranjit Deo had with his son. They are the only coins of Ranjit Deo 
I have yet met with during many years of continuous search. They 
show us what valuable aid coins may give us in unravelling and illus¬ 
trating history. 
Of the title of the city of Jammu found on the coins, Dar 
ul-Aman, we may incidentally remark that the same title is found on 
some of Humayun’s anonymous coins struck at A'gra. It was also 
the title given to Multan more because of the rhyme than the reason. 
We find it on the rupees of Aurangzeb and his successors, and also on 
the coins of the Sikhs struck at Multan. The strong fort of this place 
may, however, often have afforded shelter to the people of the western 
Panjab where it was the only stronghold of any size or importance. 
The numbers under the coins indicate their weight in grains. Five 
rupees struck at five different Indian mints of Shah Alam average I find 
17P3 grs. So that the Jummu rupees had nothing to do with the 
old silver coinage of Kashmir but were coins of the Empire, over which 
Shah Alam exercised nominal sovereignty. 
Since writing the above I have had lent me “ A History of the 
Reigning Family of Lahore with some account of the Jummoo Rajahs ” 
by Major Gf. Carmichael Smyth, Calcutta, W. Thacker and Co., 1847, 
a book published by subscription and now very rare. The author 
supplies what no one of the authorities I quote from gave me the dates. 
Ranjit Deo was born in 1724 A. D. He ascended the throne in 1742 
and reigned “ in peace and prosperity till 1780 A. D, when he died,” 
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