1883.] The Rupees of the Months of the llahi Years of Akhar. 
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The Rupees of the Months of the llahi Years of AJebar.—By Cu. J* 
Rodgers, Rrincipaly Normal College , Amritsar. 
(With two Plates.) 
The work of Marsden made known the coins of Jahangir on which 
are struck the signs of the zodiac. These coins were in gold and silver. If 
I remember right Marsden gives a complete set of the signs for one year. 
And these were all struck at one place. But the zodiacal coins were struck 
at more mints than one. Alimadabad and Agra were, however, the chief. 
Asirgarli and Agra had struck coins on which was an image of a hawk, in 
the time of Akbar. Ajmir struck the bacchanalian coin of Jahangir. All 
these coins are now so exceedingly rare that they command fabulous prices, 
and these prices have tempted unscrupulous men to imitate them so that 
the market is full of imitations of several degrees of degeneracy. 
The custom of striking the month as well as the year on the coin 
seems to have been an old one in the East. Mr. Thomas in J. R. A. S. 
Yol. IX, p. 315, gives Coin No. 79 with on it, and on p. 316, No. 80 
has the same month. No. 81 has No. 85 No. 86 In 
the British Museum Coin Catalogue, Yol. II, Oriental Coins, p. 118, coin 
503 has ^ on it. This is one of Mahmud’s. My own small collection of 
Gazni coins has one of Mas’aud’s with the same month on it, and two coins 
of Maudud, varying in other particulars of inscriptions, agree in having this 
same month. One of the same king has One of Farrukhzad’s coins 
has (V^. Dr. Stulpnagel in this Journal, Yol. XLIX, part I, 1880 edited a 
coin of Gyasuddin and Muizzuddin struck at Ghazni in the month 
of the year 596 A. H. It was a common thing to say that the coin was 
struck ts* during the months of such and such a year. The coins of 
Firwan and Ghazni and of the Sultans of Kashmir indulge in this expression. 
In my paper on the “ Copper Coins of Akbar,” I drew attention to 
the fact that the 28 coins therein figured gave the names of no less than 
six months of Akbar’s llahi years. In the present paper I propose giving 
rupees of each month of the same years. I was in hopes that I should be 
able to get the whole of the months of one year struck in one place. As 
yet I have not succeeded in this. I have seven months of one year of 
Jahangir (for Jahangir struck also in the same manner as his father Akbar 
and used the same names of the months) ; six of these were struck at Lahore 
and one at Qandahar. Of Akbar’s 19th llahi year I have seven rupees all 
of different months, but of these, two were struck at Tatta, three at 
Lahore, one at Alimadabad and one at Burhanpur. I have also one other 
rupee of this 19th year, but its mint I can’t make out jy^i (Sitapur ?). 
Of the years 16 and 18 I have rupees of five months. The whole of my 
collection of Akbar’s rupees (I have rupees of each year of his reign except 
965) enables me to give each month, and the fact that these coins were 
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