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there is a further distinction than that of date to be drawn between the 
late Moghul issues, and the continuation of the same series under the 
Company’s rule ; it is in the fact that for the first time the latter bear 
on the reverse the £t cinquefoil ” a mint mark apparently instituted at 
Calcutta and adopted at Murshidabad when the Company took over the 
mint with the administration of the district. The presence, therefore, 
of this mint mark on a coin bearing the Murshidabad mint name, can 
be can be taken as evidence that the coin should be classed in the 
British series.” 
It is true that the “ cinque foil ” appears on the earliest Calcutta 
rupee known (No. 1 in the list appended to Mr. Johnston’s paper). The 
Dinajpur find, however, contains the following rupees of Murshidabad 
mint bearing, either in whole or part, the ” “ cinque foil ” mark, viz., 
one rupee of Muhammad Shah of 30th regnal year, six rupees of 
Ahmad Shah of 2nd (3), 3rd, 5th and 6th regnal years, and five 
rupees of Shah’Alam of the 2nd, 3rd (2) and 5th (2) regnal years, i.e., 
before the annexation of Bengal. It seems clear then that the pre¬ 
sence of the “ cinque foil ” on the Murshidabad coins cannot be taken 
as evidence that those coins belong to the British series, as that mark 
appears on Mughal issues from Murshidabad some years before any 
mint was founded at Calcutta, and the right of coinage was assumed 
by the Company. The Calcutta mint must, therefore, have borrowed 
the “ cinquefoil ” from Murshidabad under the Mughals. 
To summarise the above remarks, two special features of interest 
appear to me to be disclosed in the Dinajpur find—(1) the conclusive 
evidence that the “ cinquefoil ” mint mark is of earlier than Calcutta 
origin and cannot therefore be a guide to the classification of the 
“ British series ” coins; (2) the inferential evidence afforded by the 
mint marks on the coins and indirectly supported by other material 
that the closing of the Murshidabad mint occurred in the 10th regnal 
year of Shah’Alam or 1768-69 A.D., and that before that date native 
style Murshidabad rupees were struck at Murshidabad only and after 
that date at Calcutta only. 
H. N. Weight. 
V.—Miscellaneous. 
29. Note regarding a silver coin found near Gargdon in the 
Sibsagar district. (With plate.) 
The specimen sent to me for inspection is a square coin weighing 
175 grains. 1 The edges have been clean cut, and the general appearance 
of the coin is of one which has apparently been recently struck. 
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