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7. GhITASU-D-DIN TUi^HLAQ. 



a. Type as in British Museum Catalogue, Nos. 249- 

 254 ; dates 720 ^ 721 ^i, 72223, 72327, 7243*, 725 ^s, 

 (posthumous) 72612, 7277, illegible 123 258 



b. Type as in British Museum Catalogue, Nos. 255, 

 256, date 720, 721 & 4 



c. Type, as in British Museum Catalogue, Nos. 257, 8 270 



8. Mohammad bix Tuotlaq. 



a. Type as in British Museum Catalogue, Nos. 280, 

 281, date 726 B, 727 '2, 728 3, Total: 20 



b. Type as in Bi'itish Museum Catalogue, Nos. 278, 

 279, date 7252 3 



c. Type as in British Museum Catalogue, Nos. 282- 



283, date (in words) 727 2 2 25 



9. Indo-Sassanian 5 



10. Defaced and illegible Q 



Grand total ... 890 



IV. Repokt on 190 old silver coins, forwarded by the Offg. Deputy 

 Commissioner of Sibsagar, with his No. 3556, dated 18th November 

 1893. 



The coins are stated by the Deputy Commissioner, in his Report 

 No. 1239, dated the 20th June 1863, to have been found in June or 

 July 1S92, by a time-expired cooly settler, in an earthen pot buried in 

 his sugar-cane field in Mouza Hahchhra, in the jurisdiction of the 

 Sadar Thana. 



The find consists of three classes of coins: 1, 116 coins of IMughal 

 Sultans of Delhi ; 2, 62 coins of Assam kings ; and 3, 12 coins of Jayanti- 

 pur. The Mu gh al Sultans rejiresented in the first are the following : 

 Shah Jahan, 1037-1068 A. H. = 1628-1658 A. D., Aurangzib, 1069-1118 

 A. H. = 1659-1707 A. D., Shah 'Alam Bahadur, 1119-1124 A. H. = 

 1707-1712 A. D., Farrukh Siyar, 1124-1131 A. H. = 1713-1719 A. D., 

 Muhammed Shah 1131-1161 A. H. = J 719-1 748 A. D., Ahmad Shah 

 1161-1167 A. H. = 1748-1754 A. D., 'Alamgir Sani 1167-1173 A. H. 

 = 1755-1759 A. D. Their coins cover a period of about 130 years. 

 The Assamese kings repi-esented in the find are: Rudra Siijgh 1618- 

 1636 Saka= 1696-1714 A. D., and fiva Sii)gh 1637-1660 Saka = 1715- 

 1738 A. D. 



The find consists of a large number of coins, which are of con- 

 siderable numismatic interest, especially the earlier coinages of the 

 East-India Company, in the name of Muhammed Shah. 



