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JULY, 1890.]
A word to collectors. The copper coins of Akbar are getting rarer every year, because they contain good copper and are melted down.. Of those that are weights, I have seen but few. The people no longer know what they really are, and the few I have come across have always been in heaps of coins. So in any old heap of coppers may turn up a valuable mint-made weight, of which numismatists now know nothing.
Fig. 1. Obv.:
Rev. :
The invaluable coin shown on Pl. II. fig. 32 invites me to make a remark as to an old controversy, about which I will now say nothing further than this. The revenues of Akbar were estimated in dams. Now that we know from this coin what the dâm is we can calculate the revenues exactly, or rather, we can see what the values of the sums, put down in the Ain-i-Akbari, are.
Fig. 2. Obv. :
Rev. :
Fig. 3. Obv.:
Rev. :
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The word
RARE COPPER COINS OF AKBAR.
Fig. 4.
TRANSCRIPTION.
PLATE I.
.Kalpf mint دارالضرب محمد آباد عرف کالپي .. 964 في سنہ ۹۶۴ نهصد شصت ( و چهار) .Kalpl mint دارالضرب خطہ کالبی سنی ۹۶۸ .. 968 في التاريخ
same as on fig. 2. Kha
When Kâlpî was first called Muḥammadâbâd (vide fig. 1), or by whom, I do not know. I have a mohar of Akbar in which he calls Udaipur by the same name, adding, however, the
عرب محمد آباد عرف أدي پور مفتوحه - : epithet conquered to it. The inscription runs thus
AH 006 في التاريخ سفر ۹۲۹
Fig. 10. Obv.:
Rev.
Kilpi very plain.
is used on coins of Jaunpûr struck in the time of Bâbar and Humâyûn. Obv.:
جلال الدین محمد اکبر بادشاہ غازی .. 967 في عهد) اميرالعالمي جلال الدين والدنيا ۶۷ (۹) -: .Rev
Fig. 11. Obv. :
Rev. :
Fig. 5. Obv. and Rev. as on Fig. 4, but no year on Rev. :-This coin is half the weight of No. 4. The reverse follows the type originated by Shêr Shah. Fig. 6. Obv. :
Rev. :This coin is, so far as I know, unique. Fig. 7. Obv. :
Rev. :Fig. 8. Obv. :
Rev. :
The coins of the Gwalior mint are exceedingly rare. In the large Dâru'l-Khilafat, in the small one the fort.
Fig. 9. Obv.:
Rev. :
221
في زمان جلال الدین محمد اکبر بادشاہ غازی .A.H 966 خلد الله تعالي ملكه......سنہ ٩٦٦
.Mint Gwalior ضرب ...... دارالخلاف گوالیور ..odd A 900 في تاريخ سنه نهصد...... .Mint Gwalior ( ضرب ؟ ) قلع گوالیور هفت .A.H 987 نهصد هشتاد و
one the town is called
.Jaanpar mint ضرب فلوس دارالخلافہ جونپور .. 970 في التاريخ سنہ نہصد هفتاد
The Jaunpûr coins of Akbar are very rare. This place is also called Dâru'l Khilafat on his coins.
.Ahmadabad mint ضرب فلوس احمد آباد .. 980 سنہ نهصد هشتاد ۹۸۰
Coins of the Aḥmadâbâd mint of this type are very rare; at any rate they are very seldom seen in the Paōjâb.
.Amir mint سرب اجبار سكر فلوس ..A 988 سنہ نہعد هشتاد ( وهشت ) ۹۸۸
