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¹ See Hodivala, *op. cit.*, p. 211. It will be seen that the mint-town of Bangāla, whence Akbar’s coins were issued, could not have been situated in the Chittagong region (where the ‘city of Bengala’ is usually located), as that area lay outside the Mughal empire during Akbar’s rule. See also A. Cortesao in *J R.A.S.B.*, Letters, Vol. XI, pp. 10-14; cf. A.B.M. Habibullah, *ibid.*, pp. 33 ff.