Philological Secretary — Bcports on Old Coins. [Mar. 



Ddru-s-Saltanat Ldlior, and Muhammaddbad-Bandras, 

 dates 1144, 4, 1152, 22, 1157, 27, 1131, ahad, 1154,24, 

 1149, 19, 1155, 25, 1148, 18, 1151, 20, 1143, 13, 1132, 2, 



1126, 3 12 



5, Ahmad Shah, as in British Museum Catalc^ue, No. 

 1039. Mint Ddrii-l-Khildfat Shdh Jahdndhdd, 1167, 6, 

 1161 ahad, Surat 1161, ahad ; /Sa7iaraH_p?(r 1131, ahad ; 

 MuUdnU64^,4 5 



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VIII. Keport on 40 old silver coins forwarded Iby the Assistant 

 Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces, with his 

 No. 137, of 6th January 1894, and No. 869, of 7th February 1894. 



These coins are stated to have been found in the city of Nagpur. 

 The time and locality is not further specified. 



They are Nagpur Rupees, struck in the name of the Mughal 

 emperor, Ahmad Shah Bahadur, who reigned from 1161-1167 A. H. 

 = 1748-1754 A. D. They are mostly in a very indifferent condition ; 

 neither mint not date is visible on any of them, and the emperor's 

 name occurs in the merest fragment. Most of them have punch-marks 

 (perhaps shroff-marks) impressed on their edges, as a rule only from 

 one to three ; but there are four among them, which have their edges 

 entirely covered with a series of such punch-marks, about one dozen ; 

 and it is interesting to notice that some of these punch-marks much 

 resemble certain marks on the well-known (so called) Old Hindu 

 Punch-mark Coins. 



IX. REroRT ON 25 old silver coins forwarded by the Collector of 

 Bhagalpur, with his No. 721 G., dated i^^^^ 1893. 



The coins are stated to have been found in a pot which was dug 

 out of the ground in a house in Barchpura, near Bhagalpur, on the 11th 

 February 1893. 



They belong to different classes, viz., one is an imperial Delhi 

 coin of Ghiyasu-d-din Balban, who reigned from 664-686 A. H. = 

 1265-1287 A. D. The other twenty-four are Bengal coins, of Ilyas 

 Shah, one of the independent kings of Bengal, who reigned from 740- 

 759 A. H. = 1339-1358 A. D. 



The following is a detailed statement : — 

 I. Imperial Delhi Coins. — 



Ghiyasu-d-din Balban, like Brit. Mus. Cat., No. 



103, date and mint cut off, inferior specimen 1 1 



