1. Jahāngīr. Lāhor. 1016-3 R. AR. Wt. 209 grs.
Obv., within square border of dots, on ornamented ground, the
Kalima; below, _Ẓarb-i-Lāhor 1016_.
Rev., _Nūru-d-dīn Muḥammad Jahāngīr bādshāh g̱ẖāzī sana 3_.
2. Id: Āgra. 1028-14 R. AV. Wt. 168 grs.
Obv., ram skipping to left, surmounted by sun; below, _Sana
14 julūs_, “The 14th year from the accession.”
Rev., _Yāft dar Āgrah rū-i-zar zīwar_ || _Az Jahāngīr Shāh-i-Shāh
Akbar_, “The face of gold received ornament at Āgra from
Jahāngīr Shāh, Shāh Akbar [s. Son],” and _Sana 1028_.
3. Id: Ajmer. 1023-9 R. AV. Wt. 168 grs.
Obv., Jahāngīr nimbate seated cross-legged on throne, head to
left, goblet in right hand. Around, _Qazā bar sikka-i-zar
kard taṣwīr_ || _Shabih-i-ḥaẓrat-i-Shāh-i-Jahāngīr_,
“Destiny on coin of gold has drawn the portrait of His Majesty
Shāh Jahāngīr.”
Rev., sun in square compartment in centre; to left, _Ẓarb-i-Ajmer
1023_; to right, _Ya mu’īnu_,[43] “O thou fixed one,”
and _Sana 9_; above and below, _Ḥarūf-i-Jahāngīr u
Allāhu Akbar_ || _Zi rūz-i-azal dar’adad shud barābar_,
“The letters of Jahāngīr and ‘Allāhu Akbar’[44] are equal in
value from the beginning of time.”
4. Id: Āgra. 1019-5 R. AR. Wt. 220 grs.
Obv., within multifoil area on flowered ground, _Dar isfandārmuz
īn sikka-rā dar Āgrah zad bar zar_, “In Isfandārmuz placed
this stamp at Āgra on money,” with date _5_.
Rev., contained as obv., _Shāhanshāh-i-zamān Shāh Jahāngīr
ibn-i-Shāh Akbar_, “The emperor of the age, Shāh Jahāngīr,
son of Akbar Shāh”; with date _1019_.
5. Id: with Nūr Jahān. Sūrat. 1036. AV. Wt. 166 grs.
Obv., _Zi ḥukm-i-Shāh Jahāngīr yāft ṣad zīwar_.
Rev., _Ba nām-i-Nūr Jahān Bādshāh Begam zar_, “By order of Shāh
Jahāngīr, gained a hundred beauties gold, through the name of
Nūr Jahān Bādshāh Begam”; on obv., _Ẓarb-i-Sūrat_; rev., 1036.
6. Id: in the name Salīm. Aḥmadābād. 2 R. AR. Wt. 176 grs.
Obv., _Māliku-l-mulk sikka zad bar zar_.
Rev., _Shāh Sult̤ān Salīm Shāh Akbar_, “The Lord of the realm
placed (his) stamp on money, Shāh Sultan Salīm Akbar Shāh
[S. Son]”; on Obv., _Ẓarb-i-Aḥmadābād_; Rev., _Farwardīn
sana 2_.
7. Shāh Jahān I. Aḥmadābād 1038-2 R. AR. Wt. 168 grs.
Obv., the Kalima in 3 lines; below, _Ẓarb-i-Aḥmadābād sana 2 Ilāhī
māh Ḵẖ̱ūrdād_, “Struck at Aḥmadābād in the month Ḵẖ̱ūrdād
of the Ilāhī year 2.”
Rev., _Ṣāḥib-i-qirān s̤ānī Shihābu-d-dīn Shāh Jahān bādshāh g̱ẖāzī
sana 1038_.
8. Id: Shāhjahānābād. 1069. AV. Nis̤ār. Wt. 43 grs.
Obv., _Nis̤ār-i-Ṣāḥib-i-qirān s̤ānī_.
Rev., _Ẓarb-i-dāru-l-ḵẖ̱ilāfat Shāhjahānābād 1069_. “Nis̤ār
of the ‘second lord of the conjunction,’ struck at the
capital, Shāhjahānābād, 1069.”
9. Aurangzeb: Tatta. 1072-5 R. AV. Wt. 170 grs.
Obv., _Sikka zad dar jahān chū mihr-i-munīr_ || _Shāh Aurangzeb
’Ālamgīr, 1072_, “Struck money through the world like the
shining sun, Shāh Aurangzeb ’Ālamgīr.”
Rev., _Ẓarb-i-Tatta sana 5 julūs-i-maimanat-i-mānūs_, “Struck
at Tatta in the 5th year of the accession associated with
prosperity.”
10. Shāh Shujā’: Akbarnagar. 1068-aḥd. AR. Wt. 177 grs.
Obv., in square, the Kalima and 1068; in margins, names of Four
Companions with epithets.
Rev., in square, _Muḥammad Shāh Shujā’ bādshāh g̱ẖāzī_; right
margin, _Ṣāḥib-i-qirān s̤ānī_; lower margin, _Akbarnagar_.
11. Aurangzeb: Katak. 29 R. AR. Wt. about 44 grs.
Obv., in dotted square border, on ornamental ground. _Dirham
shar’ī._
Rev., _Ẓarb-i-Katak 29_.
[43] With a reference to Ḵẖ̱wāja Mu’īnu-d-dīn Chishtī, buried at
Ajmer, A.D. 1236.
[44] By the abjad system of reckoning, the letters of Jahāngīr and
Allāhu Akbar both make up 288.
_Note._ In the Plate the reverses and obverses of Nos. 4, 6, 8 and 10
have been, by a mistake, transposed.
[Illustration: PLATE XI]
[Illustration: PLATE XII]