1904.] Numismatic Supplement. 73 
Wow it is precisely the coins of this month that differ in their legend 
from all subsequent issues. The difference consists largely but not 
solely in the arrangement of the words, and extends both to the obverse 
and to the reverse. The coins struck in the following month, Azar 
are of that modified type which was maintained till the close of the 
series. Wow the explanation of this change is clear if, as our theory 
assumes, the Aban coins were the' first struck. They simply did not 
meet with complete approval. The obverse was pronounced too crowded 
and the reverse too diffuse. Orders were accordingly given to omit 
altogether the one word Ilahl and further to so rearrange the component 
words of the legend that a portion only should find a place on the 
obverse and the remainder on the reverse. The new dies were ready 
before the coins of the second month were struck, and thereafter, so long 
as the Salimi series issued, no further variation was deemed necessary. 
This Aban 50 rupee is an evident link between Akbar’s of the 
preceding month and Salim’s of the succeeding. While its obverse 
bears Salim’s name and the Salimi legend, its reverse is identical in 
type with the reverse of the rupees struck at Ahmadabad in the last 
year of Akbar’s reign. Geo. P. Taylor, 
Ahmadabad . 
6. The copper coinage of Murad Baldish son of Shahjahan. PI. I. 11. 
When Shahjahan fell ill in A. H. 1067 (1657 A.D.) and his sons 
asserted their claims to the throne of the Mughal, Murad Bakhsh was in 
Gujarat. The mints from which he issued coins in his own name were 
confined to that province. 
His silver coins are not infrequently met with struck at either 
Ahmadabad, Surat or Cambay (Khambayat). The gold coins are extreme¬ 
ly scarce and but one or two struck at Ahmadabad are known. One 
of these is figured in the British Museum Catalogue (Wo. 692). Hitherto 
his copper coinage has been unknown. Mr. Framjee Jamasjee Tliana- 
wala, of Bombay, however, was fortunate in securing two specimens of 
dams (fulus) struck by Murad Bakhsh at Surat, and one of these he has 
kindly presented to me. The coins are of the usual size of Akbarl dam 
and weigh 316 and 333 grains, respectively. They bear the following 
legends:— 
Obv. 
Rev. 
oj 
A -1— 
J. i. 10 
H, N. Wright, C.S. 
