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 I2 S.V. VENKATESWARA Mints According allowed gold to mints of Agra, to the Agn-i-Akbari  (1594) Akbar be coined only in four places--the Ahmadabad, Kabul and Mnrhidabad--- with a view probably to exercising an effectual control over the coinage. The mints of ten other cities also were allowed to coin .silver--Allahabad, Ujjain, Snrat, Delhi, Copper places. Abnl discovered Patna, Kashmir, Lahore, Multau, Tandah. was coined iu these 14 and in 28 other This account of Fazl, but it is Akbar's mints m defective. Dr. given bv Vest  has a few coins dated 976 or 978 A.H. which were Abul doubt whether Akbar in copper especially the token currency. to light the extensive Akbar and of Jahangir. Fazl's had coined as cow minted at Bahraich, a place omitted in list. Mr. Lanepoole  was inclined to to any great extent and alanends formed But Mr. Rodgers  has brought issues in copper both of The coins of the latter were issued mostly in Kashmir and Afghanistan which were evidently health-resorts of the Emperor 'from the trying climate of the plains. were the copper coins that So plentiful indeed Shahjahau hardly felt the need for new issues and the copper coins of his time are rare. But he issued square coins in white base metal, perhaps to supersede the Portuguese coins of Sopra  Pn,fit. of col,age Tim profits of coinage were so extensive that AuranFzeb attracted bullion to the mint by inposing I Abul Fazl (ibid.) coined 'in many places.' 1 Journal of the 11oyal S La.nepoole: C.,t /ogne Introduction, p. says that in lite beginning of Akbar's reign gold was The object o[ the restriction is not explleitly mentioned. Asistio Society. London. t89.. pp. 40-48. of coins i, the Brit/ Mueun. (London,. 4 Journal of the Asiatic Society o[ Bengal. 1893. pp. 129-1911: also J896. p. 222. 8 F.,,Se Wright: Catslogue of ooins in the Iudian Museum, Calcutts, (Vol H., poa't 2) ghe description of coins sad the plates.