Hauma Hamiddha Ji, that is a very surprising and great information. How do we know it was indeed issued by Akbar? Are there inscriptions or date on these coins? Do you have the image of the other side of the coin too?
Meanwhile, here is an interesting part from Akbar and Jesuits pp68-69. Not sure how accurate or reliable, since some things can not be facts...
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He showed much affection for the Fathers, and obtained for them from the King all that they desired. The fir£t day they spoke with him, he promised to find the means for the ereftion of a church, and obtained from his father a site for the building. He afterwards confirmed this, and said he would see that some of his father's officers were appointed to take the matter in hand. The King also gave the Fathers permission to baptise all who wished to become Christians.
He has, wrote the same Father Xauier, praftically banished the sect of Mahomet from this country; so that in the town of Lahor there is not now a single mosque for the use of the Saracens; for those which were formerly there have been, by his orders, turned into tables, or into public granaries for the Slorage of wheat, rice, and other grain.
The Alcorans also have been levelled with the ground. Besides this, the King, on every Friday, which is the day the Saracens regard as holy, has brought before him forty or fifty boars, which are provoked to fight with one another; and he has their tusks mounted in gold. It is said that he does this for the sole purpose of bringing additional contempt on the Saracens, who detect these animals above all things. By these and similar means he has deprived the Mahometan law of much of its credit in these parts.
And yet one does not know for certain what law he follows; for though he is certainly not a Mahometan, as his a&ions show plainly enough; and though <span style='color:red'>he seems to incline more to the superstitions of the Pagans, Gentiles being more welcome at his court than Mahometans, he cannot be called an Ethnique; for he adores and recognises the true God, the maker of heaven and earth; and yet, at the same time, </span> <b><span style='color:red'>he worships the sun</span></b>.
It is the opinion of many, says the same Father, that he aims at making a new religion, of which he himself is to be the head; and it is said that he already has numerous followers; but that these are for the most part flatterers, or people who have been bribed by money. It is more or less certain that he has a ftrong desire to be looked upon, and esteemed as a God, or some great Prophet; and he would have people believe that he performs miracles, healing the sick with the water with which he washes his feet. Many young women pay vows to him to get their children cured, or that they may have children. And if these things come to pass, they bring him offerings, as to a saint, which, though they may be of little worth, are willingly received and highly valued by him.
Thus did Father Xauier write of this Prince, showing whither ambition leads those who are unrestrained by the fear of that sovereign Monarch who cafts down the mighty from their thrones, and exalts them that are humble. Some think, says the same Father, that he follows the opinions of the Verteas (of whom we have spoken in Book II). <span style='color:blue'>(Who is being referred here by 'Verteas'?)</span>
But it seems probable that he is drifting hither and thither, like a ship without a rudder, not knowing what haven to make for. He frequently urges the Fathers to acquire the Persian language, in order that he may discourse with them without an interpreter; and once he sent word to them by a certain person high in his confidence, and whom he employed on matters of a religious nature, that if they underwood Persian they could cut the knot by which the bonds that held him fast were secured.
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Meanwhile, here is an interesting part from Akbar and Jesuits pp68-69. Not sure how accurate or reliable, since some things can not be facts...
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He showed much affection for the Fathers, and obtained for them from the King all that they desired. The fir£t day they spoke with him, he promised to find the means for the ereftion of a church, and obtained from his father a site for the building. He afterwards confirmed this, and said he would see that some of his father's officers were appointed to take the matter in hand. The King also gave the Fathers permission to baptise all who wished to become Christians.
He has, wrote the same Father Xauier, praftically banished the sect of Mahomet from this country; so that in the town of Lahor there is not now a single mosque for the use of the Saracens; for those which were formerly there have been, by his orders, turned into tables, or into public granaries for the Slorage of wheat, rice, and other grain.
The Alcorans also have been levelled with the ground. Besides this, the King, on every Friday, which is the day the Saracens regard as holy, has brought before him forty or fifty boars, which are provoked to fight with one another; and he has their tusks mounted in gold. It is said that he does this for the sole purpose of bringing additional contempt on the Saracens, who detect these animals above all things. By these and similar means he has deprived the Mahometan law of much of its credit in these parts.
And yet one does not know for certain what law he follows; for though he is certainly not a Mahometan, as his a&ions show plainly enough; and though <span style='color:red'>he seems to incline more to the superstitions of the Pagans, Gentiles being more welcome at his court than Mahometans, he cannot be called an Ethnique; for he adores and recognises the true God, the maker of heaven and earth; and yet, at the same time, </span> <b><span style='color:red'>he worships the sun</span></b>.
It is the opinion of many, says the same Father, that he aims at making a new religion, of which he himself is to be the head; and it is said that he already has numerous followers; but that these are for the most part flatterers, or people who have been bribed by money. It is more or less certain that he has a ftrong desire to be looked upon, and esteemed as a God, or some great Prophet; and he would have people believe that he performs miracles, healing the sick with the water with which he washes his feet. Many young women pay vows to him to get their children cured, or that they may have children. And if these things come to pass, they bring him offerings, as to a saint, which, though they may be of little worth, are willingly received and highly valued by him.
Thus did Father Xauier write of this Prince, showing whither ambition leads those who are unrestrained by the fear of that sovereign Monarch who cafts down the mighty from their thrones, and exalts them that are humble. Some think, says the same Father, that he follows the opinions of the Verteas (of whom we have spoken in Book II). <span style='color:blue'>(Who is being referred here by 'Verteas'?)</span>
But it seems probable that he is drifting hither and thither, like a ship without a rudder, not knowing what haven to make for. He frequently urges the Fathers to acquire the Persian language, in order that he may discourse with them without an interpreter; and once he sent word to them by a certain person high in his confidence, and whom he employed on matters of a religious nature, that if they underwood Persian they could cut the knot by which the bonds that held him fast were secured.
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