Later Mughals v1.c10.s8.12

v1.c10.s8.12

There are twenty-three coins of this reign in the three public collections at London, Calcutta, and Lahor; four of gold and nineteen of silver, all circular in shape. All except one are dated according to the Hijra or the regnal year, or both. All except one coin can be classed under the *subahs* in which their place of mintage was situated. These twenty-two coins belong to ten mints in eight out of the twenty-one provinces; Kashmir, Tattha, Ajmer, Gujarat, Malwa, Bengal, Orissa and the six Dakhin *subahs* being unrepresented. The number of coins from each mint is: Kabul (1), Lahor (4), Multan (1), Shahjahanabad (5), Akbarabad (5), Gwaliyar (1), Etawa (2), Muazzamabad, *i.e.*, Oudh (1), Kora (1), Patna (1). It is curious that in such a short reign a distant province like Kabul should have issued any coin; but the other places were well within control of the Court. In the gold coins the weights are 160, 168, 169 and 169.5 grains, and the diameters ·77, ·8, ·85, and ·94 of an inch. For the silver coins the weight and the diameter are respectively 172 (2), 173 (4), 174 (1), 174·5 (2), 175 (5), 176 (2), 177 (1), 178 (1), and 179 (1), grains, and ·82 (1), ·85 (2), ·90 (5), ·95 (5), ·96 (1), ·97 (1), 1·0 (3), 1·03 (1) of an inch. Mr. M. Longworth Dames (*Numismatic Chronicle*, Fourth Series, ii. 275-309) has three coins of this reign; adding thereby two more mints to the above, *viz.*, Burhanpur and Sarhind.