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(c) have a still more elongated upward, flourish of the re : 
( d) have the arrow upright. PI. III. 12. 
From the poor specimens to hand of the coins of the latest period 
it is impossible to say whether the St. Andrew’s Cross was present 
on either the obverse or the reverse. 
Mint. The coins themselves supply no clue as to their place of 
mintage. Mr. Lane-Poole’s suggestion that they are of “ Gujarat 
fabric ” is doubtless correct, if the sole implication be that these coins 
were struck somewhere in Gujarat. We have already seen that their 
distribution was practically confined within the limits of that province. 
But when Mr. Lane-Poole further states that “ they have all the ap¬ 
pearance of the later Kachh coins,” 1 we should be on our guard against 
the inference that their original home was Kachh. It is true that the 
coins of Kachh, and indeed of the neighbouring States of Navanagar and 
Porbandar in Kathiawad as well, continued to bear for three centuries 
the name of Muzaffar (III), the last Sultan of Gujarat, and they are in 
this respect analogous to the coins of Gujarat fabric, which invariably 
present the name of Akbar Badshah, whether struck in his reign or in 
Jahangir’s, or even two centuries later. Also in shape and size and 
workmanship the coins of Kachh and Kathiawad do bear some resem¬ 
blance to those of Gujarat fabric. But their weight—and this is per¬ 
haps the crucial test—tells decidedly against the supposition that the 
Gujarat fabric coins hail from some mint in Kachh or Kathiawad. From 
the year 978 H. right on till recent times the standard coin of Kachh 
was the silver kori of 73 grains, bearing unchanged throughout that 
period the date 978. Now it is extremely improbable that any mint 
would be issuing at one and the same time this kori and also the Gujarat 
fabric half-rupees of 85 grains, bearing as their date the varying years 
of issue. The kori and the rupee being incommensurable, we may safely 
assume that no mint would have produced both types of coin together. 
To have done so would have involved intolerable confusion. 
This same objection applies with equal force to the assumption 
that the Gujarat fabric coins issued from either Navanagar or Por¬ 
bandar, for at these mints too koris were struck, all dated 978 H. 
According to the Bombay Gazetteer (Vol. VIII, page 465) “ a mint 
was established in Junagadh subsequent to the conquest of the province 
by the Moghal Government.” But that conquest did not take place 
till the year 1000 H., and hence we may safely affirm that coins, such as 
1- Catalogue of Indian Coins in the British Museum : the Mughal Emperors, 
page LXVIII. ' 
