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 MUGHAL CURRENCY 173 duties on the purchase and sale of silver in the country.' He is said to haYe derived a profit of 11 ]akhs a year from his mint at $urat alone.' It mut be said to the credit they did not stoop to debase of his successors that the coinage in spite of all their political and economical difficulties. They sold the Eist India Company the right to issue coins at Bombay in 1717, at .Iadras in 1742 and at Calcutta in 1757. The company's coins were copies of Mughal issues--.g., those issued by Shah Alum at Mnrshidabad in 1793. Features oj  the coins The coinage of the Mughal from many points of view. The splendid specimens of except by those issued display his gave up the the engraver's by his son, period is interesting coins of Akbar are art, nnsttrpassed resfleas yearning broad thin pieces after of Jahangir. They innoYation. He tle Trans-Oxine model, and adopted the Indian way of coining thick dumpy pieces. He first tried oblong coins vith scalloped ends and lozenge shaped 'coins, known as mihrabl because niche. his issuing square coins on the model probably of those issued in Kashmir and in Malw. The Kalim they resembled the arch of a prayer But his eccentricity 'or love of display led to in a triple circle On other coins it appears in a variety of ways. It is wavy pentagon, quatrefoil, triple border Sometimes it is in square, triple, curved, or enclosed in o'namental on the coins sometimes in or diamond. inscribed border. coin dots between in sixfoil, multifoil A is in double square with in double foliated or of the Lahore ning pentagon. The duty ws on "all silver ad gold that should be sold by one Hindu mere to another." which would necessarily "very much prejudice ticale" Diaries o! $trelmslum Master, Edited by ir R. C. Temple Vol. I., p, ll0), tgazucci: $toria Do Mollor II, 417, (Irvino's translation)