1883.] The Rupees of the Months of the Haiti Years of ATchar. 
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Besides rupees there are parts or divisions of rupees of Akbar’s mints 
obtainable. Three coins in mj cabinet average 17'2 grains. 
Five coins average 42*75 grains. Five average 75 9. I have a gold 
Ilahi coin weighing over 186 grains. The first Ilahi rupees average about 
175 grains. 
Now what I should consider an exhaustive, scientific and systematic 
collection of Akbar’s coins would include a specimen of every type struck 
at all his mints in different metals, weights, shapes, sizes, months and 
years. The possible coins to he obtained should be tabulated, and as speci¬ 
mens of each are obtained, each should be marked off. The collector would 
thus see what his wants were. 
It seems strange that about 100 years after the time of Akbar, James II 
should strike coins with the names of the months on them. Flis gun 
money has months on it. I should think there are collections in England 
in which each month is represented. Knowing next to nothing of English 
coins I cannot say. 
Without further prelude I will at once proceed to examine the rupees 
drawn in the accompanying plates. The first twelve are round ones. They 
all agree in the matter of reverse. It is &1J| 
The obverses are as follows, in order of the months 
(1) 
HP 
ij\ (^1 
Farwardxn. 
(2) 
PI 
Ardibihisht. 
(3) 
pr 
Khurdad. 
(4) 
p. 
Tir. 
(5) 
a * 
Amardad. 
(6) 
n 
igd 1 JJtrt" 
Shah re war. 
(7) 
PS 
Mi hr 
(8) 
PS ‘rLT*’ 8^° 
Aban. 
(9) 
j&v (_5 jyl jit 
Azar. 
(10) 
TA 
jj.sk 1/ 
Dl. 
(10 
PI 
Bah man. 
(12) 
pa j 
Isfandarmuz. 
It will be noticed that only No. 8 has anything beyond the name of 
the month. This rupee has the word for month 8^ on it. The ornamenta¬ 
tion on each rupee varies according to the mint. Agra and Lahore have 
by far the most graceful writing on them. The inscriptions on the Ahmad- 
abad rupees are particularly stiff and formal and ugly. I am not quite 
sure whether No. 7 was struck at Sitapur or not. The mint is new to me. 
I have a second one of the same mint and month, but of another year. 
No. 9 is of a new mint— Lahnhandar, a port of Sind now no longer known 
