160 Pliilological Secretary — Reports on old coins. [May, 



The Seceetary reported tlie death of the following member — 

 Dr. N. K. Roy. 



The President announced that the Council had sanctioned the 

 following amounts of subscriptions due by members being written oif, 

 viz., Dr. J. E. T. Aitchison, Rs. 42. A. C. Carlleyle, Esq., Rs. 78-6-6. 

 Major H. H. Cole, Rs. 68-13-6. 



The Philological Secretary read the following reports on finds 

 of Treasure Trove coins. 



I. Report on 24 old coins, forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner 

 of Shahpur, witli his No. 134, dated 7th February 1890. 



The coins are all of copper of various sizes and Aveights. They are 

 stated to have heen found near the village of Hadali in the Shahpur 

 District. 



Only three of the coins are recognizable, and even these are in bad 

 preservation. The remainder are w^orn beyond recognition. 



Of the three coins which can be determined, two are Indo-Scythian, 

 of king Kanishka, with the well-known N'ANA and OKPO reverses ; 

 see Ariana Antiqtta, PL XII, tigs. 12, 17. The third appears to be a 

 Kashmiri coin of Mahmud. 



II. Report on 108 old coins, forwarded hy the Deputy Com- 

 missioner of Shahpur, with his No. 948, dated the 9th ISTovember 1889. 



The coins are stated to have been found at Sodhi in the Salt 

 Range. 



They are all coins of precisely the same description as another set 

 of 196 coins which were sent for examination some time ago, and have 

 heen reported on by me on the 25th Sept. 1889. The two sets were 

 found at the same place, and appear to have belonged to the same ti'ea- 

 sure. They are small copper (mixed with silver) coins of ths Pathan 

 Sultan of Delhi, Giiiyasu-d-din, described in Thomas's Chronicles of the 

 Pathan Kings of Delhi, p. 135, No. 113 (pi. II, fig. 43). 



III. Report on 326 old coins, forwarded by the Subdivisional 

 Ofiicer, Rajmahal, Sonthal Parganahs, with his No. 741, dated 19th 

 December 1889. 



In the letter of the Secretary to the Govt, of Bengal, No. ^^^^ Misc., 

 dated 26th October 1889, and addressed to the Commissioner of the 

 Bhagalpur Division and Santhal Parganahs, with reference to this 

 treasure, it is stated, that the coins were found in September 1889 on 

 the banks of the river Ganges at Begamganj in the Rajmahal Sub- 

 division of the Santhal Parganahs. Together with them were found 49 



