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others having been already melted down, by the time the find became 

 known to the police. This coin and the ringlets have been acquired for 

 Government by the Collector, under sec. 16 of Act YI of 1878, under the 

 Board's sanction No. 68 A of 8th February last; and have been forwar- 

 ded to me for safe custody. 



With reference to the coin and ringlets I may repeat what I wrote 

 to the Collector on the 11th December last. The coin is a barbarous 

 imitation of the coinage of the Indo-Scythian king Vasu Deva; it is 

 cast in a mould, not struck from a die ; it is also of short weight (113 

 grains instead of 120 and upwards). It may not have been intended 

 for a coin, but for an ornament. There can be no question, however, of 

 its being of ancient manufacture. One of the ringlets is of a pattern 

 which is unknown at the present day. (Both coin and ringlets are now 

 deposited in the Indian Museum in Calcutta.) 



YI. Report on 40 old silver coins, forwarded by the Offg. 

 Collector of the 24-Perganahs, with his No. 3475 G, dated the 26th 

 March 1890. 



The coins are stated to have been found buried in the compound 

 of a house in Rajkolah in Thannah Deyganga, Subdivision Baraset. 

 They are said to weigh 37 tolahs and 9 annas, and to be worth Rs. 32/14, 



On examination, I found that they are coins of some of the indepen- 

 dent Sultans of Bengal. They are, as usual with coins of this class, dis- 

 figured and cut with " shrofE-marks," a circumstance which makes 

 their identification sometimes a matter of difiiculty. In the present 

 case, the coins belong to the following Sultans : — 



No. of specimens. 



1, XIYth Sultan, Shamsu-d-dIn Yusuf Shah, son of Barbak 



Shah, 879—836 A. H. = 1474—1481 A. D. There is 

 only one specimen of his coin, as described and figured in 

 Marsden's Nii,mismata Orientalia, No. DCCLXXYI ; and 

 Journal, Asiat. Soc. Beng., Yol. XY, plate Y, No. 14. 

 It is dated [8]83 1 



2, XYIIIth Sultan, Saifu-d-din Firuz Shah II, 892—895 A. 



H. =1487 — 1490 A. D. Only one specimen, as describ- 

 ed and figm^ed in J. A. S. Bengal, Yol. XLII, p. 288. 

 It is dated 892, which shows that the Sultan's reign 

 ■ must have commenced as early as that year 1 



3, XXIst Sultan, 'Alau-d-din Husain Sha'h, 899—927 A. H. 



= 1494 — 1521 A. D. Of his coinage there are 38 speci- 

 mens belonging to several varieties ; viz., 

 a. A common variety, described and figured in Marsden's . 



