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W. Irvine— The Later Mu ghats. 
D .— Coinage . 
His coins bore the disticb:— 
Sikkah zad, az fazl-i-Haqq, bar sim o zar, 
Padshah-i-bahr-o-bar, Farrukhslyar. 
“ By tbe grace of the True God, struck coin on silver and gold, 
“ The emperor of land and sea, Farrukhslyar.” 
A parody of these lines was current at the time in Dihll ■ 
Sikkah zad bar gandum o moth o mattar 
Badshah-i-danah-kash. Farrukhslyar. 
“ Struck coin on wheat, lentils and peas, 
The grain gathering emperor, Farrukhslyar.” 1 
There are 116 coins of this sovereign in the three collections, at 
the British Museum, in Lahor, and in Calcutta; of gold, 18 (14 of the 
large and 4 of the small issue), and of silver, 98 (circular 97, square, 
that is, the dirham-i-shara l i or legal dirham , 1). One hundred and 
twelve are dated by the regnal year. Each year of the reign is repre¬ 
sented, 1st (8 coins), 2nd (17), 3rd (9), 4th (7), 5th (19), 6th (19), 7th 
(29), 8th (4). All except 6 coins (3 places not identified, 2 forged, 1 
mint illegible) can be classed under the Subahs in which their mints 
were situated. These 110 coins belong to 23 mints in 15 out of the 21 
Subahs—those unrepresented being Kabul, Kashmir, Ajmer, Allahabad, 
Bldar and Barar. The number of coins from each mint is Lahor (16), 
Multan (7), Tattah (1), Dihll, 33 (Shahjahanabad 27, Bareli 2, Sihrind 
4), Gujarat, 7 (Surat 7), Akbarabad, 11 (Akbarabad 6, Itawah 3, Gwali- 
yar 2), Audh, 1 (Lakhnau 1), Malwah, 2 (Ujjain 2), Bahar, 8 (Patnah 
‘Azimabad 8), Bengal, 7 (Murshidabad, 6, Jahangirnagar Dhakah, 1), 
Orissa, 3 (Katak 3), Khandesh, 4 (Burhanpur 4), Aurangabad (1), 
1 Sayyad Mahomed Latif, “ History of the Panjab,” 189, note, and Kulliyati- 
Jct'far, ZatallT, p. 57 at end. The Halahcit-i-maqdl of Kao Dalpat Singh, B.M. Or. 
1828, fol. 74a, attributes these lines to Mirza Ja‘far, Zatali of Narnol, and states 
that for writing them he was condemned to death (see Beale, 189). The first line 
has mung instead of moth, and the second line is given as Bddshdh-i-tasmahJcash, 
(strap-stretching) Farrukhslyar. “ The Coins of the Moghul Emperors in the 
B. M.,” 1892, p. 179-190, “Coins of the Mogul Emperors” by C. J. Rodgers (Cal¬ 
cutta, 1893) and “ Coins of the Indian Museum ” by the same (Calcutta, 1894). 
Mr. M. Longworth Dames “Some Coins of the Mughal Emperors,” (Numismatic 
Chronicle, II, 275 or 309, London 1902), has added Ahmadabad and Ajmer and Kam- 
bayal to the unit towns. Khushhal Cand, 396a. 
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