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[No. 1, 
Nitmismatic Supplement. 
though on p. 11 of his article he remarks that the period of zodiacal 
coins extends from 1019 to 1036, states on p. 15 of the same paper 
“ les annees de frappe vont done de 1019 a 1035 pour le monnayage 
d’argent alors qu’elles oscillent entre 1025 et 1034 pour les mohrs.” 
A rupee (Taurus) struck at Agra in 1035, which is in the Cabinet des 
Medailles, bears the latest date giveu by him. Mr; Gibbs remarked : 
“ The latest date among my own gold is Cancer 1034-20, and among the 
silver 1027-13 * * # Marsden gives . 1034-19 as the 
latest gold with the exception of the rare Sagittarius at Paris which 
has Nurjahan Begam’s name on the reverse and which is 1035-20.” 
The engraving both of the obverse and reverse dies is particularly 
fine, and I believe that no other zodiacal moharis known with the figure 
of the Ram to the right. The reverse legend adds a new couplet to 
those hitherto recorded on the coins of Jahangir. The coin weighs 
168 grs. 
5. On the date of the Saliml Goins. PI. I. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 
It is well-known that a series of coins issued from the Ahmadabad 
mint in the name of Sultan Salim Shah, son of Akbar Shah. Now this 
Salim on mounting the imperial throne assumed the name of Jahangir 1 
and accordingly it is not strange that the Salimi silver rupees and 
copper tankis have generally been assigned to some period prior to his 
accession. The British Museum Catalogue, for instance, attributes 
them to Jahangir as Governor of Gujarat. Unfortunately for this 
hypothesis, however, the prince Salim never was Governor of Gujarat. 
Below is the list of all the viceroys appointed by the Emperor Akbar 
from the date of his subjugation of the province in A.D. 1573 until the 
accession of Jahangir in A.D. 1605, 
1. Mirza ‘Aziz Koka ... ... A.D. 1573-1575. 
2. Mirza ‘Abd al Rahim Khan ... 1575-1577. 
3. Shihab al din Ahmad Khan ... 1577-1583. 
1 Jahangir, the eldest son of the Emperor Akbar the Great, “was named 
“ Mirza Salim on account of his coming into the world, as supposed, by the prayers 
“ of Shaikh Salim Cishti, a venerable Shaikh and dervish who resided in the village 
“ of Sikri, now called Fatehpur Sikri, in the province of Agra.” Beale : Oriental 
Biographical Dictionary (1894), page 191. My friend, Mr. J. J. Ghose, M.A., of 
Ahmadabad, has kindly supplied me the following extract from the Tuzak-i-Jahan- 
giri: “ After my birth I was named Sultan Salim. But I never heard the blessed 
“lips of my father address me either seriously or in jest as Muhammad Salim or 
Sultan Salim, He always called me Shekho Baba . When 1 became King it 
“ came into my mind that I should change my name (Salim) because of its resem¬ 
blance to the names of the Qaisars of Turkey. The Heavenly Inspirer put into 
my heart that, as the work of Kings is to conquer the world, I should call myself 
“ Jahangir.” 
