376 Numismatic Supplement. [No. 4, 
23. Rupees op Akbar op the Allahabad Mint. 
A recent find of 21 silver coins in the Rai Bareli district of Oudh 
contained 9 rupees of Akbar struck at Allahabad, of which three were 
dated 46 Ilahi and four 47 llahi. These rupees, especially those of the 
former year, are very scarce. The coins were acquired by Government 
and are in the Lucknow Museum. 
Ed. 
24. On Two recent Mint Lists. 
The current year (1904) has witnessed the publication of two 
noteworthy Lists of Mints—one prepared by Dr. Oliver Codrington, 
I.M.S., and forming not the least valuable portion of his invaluable 
“ Manual of Musalman Numismatics the other compiled by Mr. R. 
Burn, I.C.S., and communicated to the Journal of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal. The former List is characterised in a marked degree by 
the special qualities that distinguish the “ Manual ” as a whole. In 
order to its preparation not only scholarship and skill, but, that much 
rarer qualification, the faculty for patient plodding was requisite, in¬ 
asmuch as the entire range of literature on the ^numerous classes of 
coins bearing either Arabic or Persian legends would seem to have 
been placed under contribution. It is not strange then that the 
resultant Mint List has assumed somewhat formidable proportions. 
It comprises in all the names of no less than 1,067 mints ranging from 
Spain in the Far West to Malaysia in the Far East. Of the various 
coin-groups included in this aggregate List that of the Mu gh al Em¬ 
perors of India—or, as the “ Manual,” in the effort after brevity, styles 
them, of the “ Dehli Emperors ”—is not the least extensive. We 
find here registered 189 Indian Mughal Mints, a sufficiently remark¬ 
able advance upon the 80 recorded in the Coin Catalogue of the 
British Museum, or the 105 in the Labor Museum Catalogue. In a 
work covering so vast a range, yet all comprised within 240 pages, 
one cannot in-fairness expect detailed information regarding the 
coin-issues from the individual mints. It is just this detail, however, 
that Mr. Burn’s Mint List supplies in abundant measure. From it 
we learn not merely the names of the Mu gh al Mints in India, but the 
reigns during which each several mint was in operation, and—for 
coin-collectors most welcome information—a cabinet in which can 
to-day be found specimens, whether in gold or silver or copper, of the 
coins struck at the different mints in the different reigns. As to place, 
this List is restricted to Indian Mints ; and as to time, to the three 
centuries preceding the Indian Mutiny: yet, notwithstanding this 
comparatively narrow range, no less than 204 mints fail to be 
