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Numismatic Supplement. 
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4. I‘timad Khan Gujarati 
5. Mirza c Abd al Rahim Khan (2nd time). 
6. Isma‘il Qnli Khan ... 
7. Mirza ‘Aziz Koka (2nd time) 
8. Sultan Murad Bakhsli 
9. Mirza ‘Aziz Koka (3rd time) 
1583- 1584 
1584- 1587. 
1587. 
1588-1592. 
1592-1600. 
1600-1606. 
Not only is Salim’s name absent from this list, hut, inasmuch as 
in all the thirty-two years the viceroyalty was never vacant, no loop¬ 
hole even remains for the conjecture that Salim may at some time have 
held the Office of Governor. 
It is true that towards the end of Akbar’s reign Salim rose in 
rebellion, hut the disaffection was shortlived 1 and apparently was 
confined to the Allahabad District. No trace of it seems to have reach¬ 
ed the distant Abmadabad. 
If then Salim’s coins were not struck by him either as Viceroy or 
as rebel, we are evidently shut up to the conclusion that they were 
issued by his orders as Emperor. And if this be the case, we may safe¬ 
ly affirm that they must have been struck in the very earliest part of 
his reign—before his newly adopted name Jahangir had quite come 
into vogue. On this point the evidence of the coins themselves is in¬ 
structive. They bear no Hijri year, but, as generally read, they have 
alongside of the name of the month of issue either the year 2 or the 
year 5. Not a single Salimi coin is known of the year 1 or 3 or 4, and 
none of any year later than 5. How to account for the strange lacuna 
was long a puzzle. The first clue to a solution was given by Mr. Nelson 
Wright who noticed that the coins supposed to read the year 5 do, as a 
matter of fact, read 50. The Persian figure 5 is here written as a small 
circle, and accordingly the following digit, zero, is represented merely 
by a dot. On several badly struck specimens the 5 appears clear enough, 
but in the process of coining the 0, which came nearer the edge of the 
die, has simply missed the flan altogether. On other specimens again 
the dot has been quite worn away. My own collection, however, con¬ 
tains five of these Salimi rupees with the 50 written distinctly as O. 
With this clue in our hand the tangle all unravels. And in this 
way: — 
Clearly the 50 represents the 50th (or last) solar year of Akbar’s 
reign, his Ilahi 50, and the 2 the next succeeding solar year. In the 
earlier months of the Ilahi 50 Akbar was still on the throne, and the 
coins of these months bore his name. In the first week of the 8th 
l Keferring to Salim’s rebellion Manouchi writes : “ He repaired the disobedience 
of a few months by a sincere application ever after to all the offices of a dutiful 
son.” Catrou’s Manouchi (English Translation, 1709), page 134. 
