104 
The Rupees of the 3fonths of the Ilahi Tears of AJcbar. £No. a, 
by the people of Sind. These two mints are not in the Ain-i-Akbari. 
Neither is that of Nos. 8 and 12, Burhanpur. 
It will be noticed also that none of these round rupees are of Akbar’s 
early Ilahi years. The earliest I have is the 38th year (No. 10.) From 
the 30th year all my rupees of Akbar are square. Perhaps more fortunate 
collectors may possess earlier round Ilahi rupees. 
The inscriptions on the square rupees are as follow : — 
(13) 
(14) 
(15) 
(16) 
(17) 
(18) 
(19) 
( 20 ) 
( 21 ) 
( 22 ) 
(23) 
(24) 
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J. 
Do. 
Do. 
LS 
,1a,' 
■j 
Obverse. 
jS\ *Ut 
yf\ a-')I 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
aJil 
Do. 
cU dJJl 
Reverse. 
^Jt r • 
^1 rv 
diij M ■* 
r«s 
\°r * [/0 
r • ojbl »bo 
^IjkLo |*« 
cstr^l 
rn HAL. <Jb^ 
jf\ a1J| 
I have not square rupees with the months Farwardin* and Isfandar- 
muz on them. Hence I put in their places Nos. 13 and 24, two novelties 
of the Ilahi series. They are destitute of both mint and month. They 
have only the Ilahi years. Three of the rupees Nos. 13, 20 and 23 are of 
the first Ilahi year.f Tatta\ is a new mint town not in the Ain-i-Akbari. 
It and Lahri Bandar seem to have been Akbar’s only mints in Sind. 
Bhakkhar is in the Ain as a mint. 
Nos. 13, 14, 17, and 24 are without mints on them. I have several 
more mintless square rupees all of great beauty. 
I almost dare to indulge the hope that some day or other I shall get 
a complete series of square rupees of each mint. I dare not hope that I 
shall get one of each month of each year, for I do not think that every 
* There is a Tatta one of this month in the British Museum, and since drawing 
the plate, I have myself obtained one, through the generosity of my friend W. Theo¬ 
bald, Esq., struck at Dehli in 37 Ilahi. 
t I have since obtained a fourth of the month Di struck at Dehli. This gives me 
three Dehli rupees all struck in the first Ilahi year of Akbar, i. e. } the 30th of his 
reign. 
+ There is a possibility that this mint may be Patna. The coins are, however, so 
rough that they do not in any way resemble some remarkably fine coins I have, struck 
undoubtedly at Patna. 
