1883.] The Rupees of the Months of the llahi Years of AJcbar. 101 
There may be a series of couplets of this kind. Mr. Delmerick edited 
one with the month Isfandarmuz on it, the couplet running thus :— 
t jsfi° cj ^^ 
My coins weigh 217 and 216 grs. Mr. Delmerick puts his down at 
219 grs. Dr. Stulpnagel had some coins of this square heavy series stolen. 
General Cunningham in 1880 had one also. The whole of the months may, 
I have not the slightest doubt, be obtained in time. The twelve months 
of the zodiacal coins, and the twelve months of the llahi years of Jahangir 
I have already noticed would of themselves form a trio of most interesting 
series.t 
When Jahangir died and Shahjahan ascended the throne, the Kalimah 
which had been absent so many years of the reign of Jahangir from the 
coinage at once took its place again on the issues from all the mints. I 
have three rupees of Shahjahan’s first year. The one struck at Surat has 
on it f »r a (sj I n another place it has «^| Of his second 
year I have two rupees, one struck at Patna in Amardad Mali of the llahi 
year 2. It has on it the Kalimah in full, also the date 1038. The other 
one was struck at Multan in Aban Mah of the same year. It also has on 
it the Kalimah and date 1038. The series of Shahjahan’s rupees, on which 
the square lozenge comes, as a rule ignores the llahi years. One, however, 
which I have was struck at Bhakkhur in Aban llahi. 
After the death of Shahjahan no Emperor put the llahi months on 
his coin. Each rupee was dated with the year of the Hejirah, and with 
the year of the reign in which it was struck. The llahi system may be 
said to have died out, therefore in the early part of the reign of Shahjahan, 
so far as the coinage was concerned. In the Akbar series of llahi rupees 
there is one portion on which the names of the months do not come. Only 
the year is there without any mint. Some of the earliest of the series are 
in this fashion. I have one gold one of this type and several silver ones. 
From their scarcity I judge them to have been proof coins. Some of them 
are in a beautiful state of preservation, fresh as from the mint. 
Gold coins of the llahi years are also procurable. They are scarcer 
than the silver ones, but still I have no doubt that were an exhaustive, 
scientific and systematic search to be made, the whole of the months might 
* In the B. M. there is a coin which has ij-f) instead of (*■*1 
f I find in my small cabinet one of Jahangir’s gold coins of exquisite beauty and 
finish has ePAAt* worked up into a couplet, thus. 
^jA.| jj 
»—ep! e/p?' 8^" j 
This coin weighs 219 grains hut it has a small loop on it. 
