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Numismatic Supplement. 
103 
Note —The numeration of these articles is continued from p. S81 of the 
Journal for 1904. 
IV. 
26. Akbar’s Copper Coins of Ahmadabad. (With plate). 
In the five years that have elapsed since my article on “ The Coins 
of Ahmadabad ” was written for the Journal of the Bombay Branch of 
tbe Royal Asiatic Society, considerable additional material has come to 
light, thus rendering it possible for me now to supplement, and in some 
few particulars to modify, the account then given. Only the other day 
I noticed for the first time that the Akbari Fulus struck at Ahmadabad 
in the Ilabi years 41 and 42, though of identical type with tbat of Ilahi 
39, differed from mf copper coins of Ilabi 40. These last, on the other 
hand, were not Fulus at all but Tankas of the same type as the coins 
struck in Ilahi 44 and 46. This discovery set me on a thorough re¬ 
examination of all the specimens now in my possession, with the result¬ 
ant conviction that the copper coins assigned in the aforementioned 
article to the year 40 had been misread, and should have been attributed 
to the years 45 (the =45, not 40). In order to rectify this mistake 
and the errors consequent upon it, and with a view to bringing under 
contribution the most recent information on the subject, I now submit 
the following description of the Akbari copper coins of Ahmadabad :— 
The copper coins that issued from the Ahmadabad Mint in the 
name of the Emperor Akbar were of three kinds—the Fulus, the 
Tanka and the Tank! or Tanki. All were round coins, and each bore on 
its obverse its distinctive designation. 
Whole Fulus: 
A.— The Fulus. 
weight, 320 grains : diameter, *85 to *9 inch. 
160 „ „ *7 inch. 
80 „ „ ’6 inch. 
Of the Fulus three varieties were successively current. 
I. The Fulus struck on Akbar’s subjugation of Gujarat in H. 980 
bore the following legends (Fig. 1J :— 
9A- 
2 
1 
4 
13 
33 
31 
3) 
Obv. 
aljf 
Rev. 
itJLM 
but this variety was issued only during the years H. 980 and 981. 
half Fulus of this type is in Mr. Nelson Wright’s cabinet. 
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