Indian Antiquary Vol 19

SR No.: 032511
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 510
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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JULY, 1890)
RARE COPPER COINS OF AKBAR.
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.A faults of Gwalior ضرب فلوس گوالیار ر)
.Afulds of Almadabad فلوس احمد آباد
All these three pieces are, so far as I know, unique. They were met with in different parts of the Pañjab. They show how the mints provided the people with authentic weights, though the actual weights of the pieces vary from 244:5 to 237 grains. Wear and tear, account for the differences. Akbar evidently saw that the only way to provide standard weights for the people was to issue them under his own authority and from his own mints.6 Fig. 2. Oby. :
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I wij p rywyd Half-tanka of Lâhôr. Rev. :
Ny slogge 46th year llâhi. Here we have a half-tanka, a coin equal in weight to the dáms of the Súris and of the first 30 years of Akbar's reign. I have seen no tanka, or quarter-tanka, or any other part of the tanka from the Lâhôr mint, though they are in existence in all probability. Collectors should keep a sharp look out for them. Fig. 22. Obv.:Rev. :
NINA J 38th year Ilahi. Here this dám is called a fulls. This coin of the Gwalior mint is, I believe, unique, Fig. 24. Obv. :Rev. :
ut I...... yel Year scarcely legible. This fulás is very rare indeed. . Fig. 25. Oby:
This gul wwgli non s ot (gue) A fulus of Khairpâr. Rev.:
Ipv w! Ju 47th year Ilahi. I do not know where Khairpûr is. This fulds is unique. Fig. 26. Oby. :
ILI SU na pse (yue) The 4th of a tanka. Rev. :
HINJE JIS yol 44th year Tláh i. There is no mint to this fourth part of a tanka. It is an excessively rare coin. Fig. 27. Obv.:
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(lugue?) A Qanaaj coin. Rev.:
919 dig ensay dapi 969 A. H. Here we have an undoubted coin of the Qanauj mint. This place was called Shêr Gath Qanauj on the copper coins of Islâm Shâh Sür. There are some letters on the obverse I have not been able to make into words. As yet this specimen is unique. Fig. 28. Obv.:
......(s) gaiol wy Strack at Ajmêr. Rev. :
TV dig slido da diyi 979 A.H. This is an early coin of the Ajmer mint. What the meaning of mansur and the letters above that word may be I cannot make out. Fig. 30. Obv. :Rev.:
youpon...... 48th year Ilâhi. This fulás is worn. Burhanpûr is not mentioned as a mint in the Ain-i-Akbari. I have several rupees, however, of this mint, though this is the only copper coin I have yet seen struck at this place. Fig. 31. Obv.:Rev.:
way (cia), ali anap nin 987 A, H.
.Struck at Burhanpai ضرب فلوس برہانپور
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.8tract at Fathpdr mint ضرب دارالضرب فتحپور فلوس
. Since the above was written I have been favoured by that celebrated numismatist, Dr. J. Gerson da Cunha of Bombay, with sight of some of his immense stores. In these I dotooted two four-tanie pieces struck at AhmadAbid. They were very much worn, but still legible.
Coins from this mint are in my possession, but as yet are anedited. A long paper is in fast wanted on the coppor coinage of the Saris, showing the mints and inscriptions.