1883.] C. J. Rodgers —Coins Supplementary of the Path an Kings. G3 
(I have found his coins most abundantly at Amritsar and Ludianah) he 
ruled a goodly number of years and was a powerful sovereign. 
If I am correct in my assignment of coin No. 21 it shows us that we 
should not despise the meanest bit of stamped copper that falls into our 
hands. Mr. Thomas quotes the fact of his having struck coins in his own 
name. Every such quotation it should be the delight of the numismatist 
to corroborate by the production of the actual coins. There are numerous 
instances of the record of this fact. But if we hunt in the Museums of the 
country for numismatic corroboration we shall look in vain. And private 
cabinets would not help us much I am afraid.* This should not deter us 
from searching in the public cabinets of every market town—the heaps of 
old coins in the possession of every money changer. 
Coin No. 27 is another illustration of this very point. When I read 
the story of the invasion of Taimur, I wondered that I had never met with 
his Indian coins. Many of course must have been melted down. I have 
a dim idea of having once seen in a notice of some one’s collection, the 
mention of a gold coin of Taimur’s struck at Dehli. I should like to 
know from my fellow workers if this coin is still in existence. My copper 
one is now in the British Museum. Nearly all the other coins here drawn 
and described are also now in the National Collection. They ought to 
have come back to India. But I found that in England they would be 
taken care of, shown to all enquirers and properly catalogued and described. 
In India I know of no place fit for the proper keeping of historic medals. 
The immense empire of India is too poor to support a curator of coins and 
cannot as yet boast of an Imperial Cabinet. And yet we talk of India 
being a continent. And in truth it is so, and each country of that conti¬ 
nent has its record in coins (in some cases in coins only). It were surely 
well if Imperial indifference could be transformed into Imperial interest in 
this matter. 
* I have just been reading the life of George Thomas, the only Irishman who 
ruled in India as an independent sovereign. He says he struck coins in his own 
name. I believe some are in existence still, hut I have not as yet seen one. Neither 
does the Lahore Museum as yet contain one. We, Panjab collectors, are a slow lot 
of folks after all. 
