1920. ] Numismatic Supplement No. XX XIII. 87 
In Mr. V. A. Smith’s Catalogue of Coins in the Indian 
Museum there is a silver coin (pl. XXX) assigned to Visn 
chittadeva of the Kadamba Dynasty of Goa.! Inafoo hatte Mr 
Smith records that this and another examined by Dr. Hultsch, 
Section, first ‘of all noticed the mistake in the catalogue. 
legend on the coin being in ancient Bengali characters, Messrs. 
Smith and Hultzsch found it difficult to read. I read it at 
first as Gunagovindadeva but Pandit Bidyabinod read it cor- 
rectly as Whatley! agers In Persian characters it would be 
written 913 O55 95 The second waw of Guru seems to have 
been omitted by a soridé, hence the Suhail-i-vaman has ),>S. 
oS, This was transliterated Gaur Govinda. 
The coin weighs 37'8 grains and measures 68” in diameter 
(Pl. XIII, No. 9). The coin of Ramagangamanikya of Tippera 
weighs 162°3 grains. This coin may be taken as a quarter- 
rupee. It corresponds with the Tippera coinage in many res- 
pects, the arrangement of the legend being almost identical. 
The rampant lion of Tippera appears on the obverse of this 
coin and below it the date 140 (?) 2, evidently of the Saka 
era. Long before the discovery of this date I had assigned 
the conquest of Sylhet to the reign of Sultan Shamsu-d-din 
Yusuf Shah, son of Sultan Rukn-ud-din Barbak Shah, in the 
second volume of my “ieee of Bengal.* The date on ore 
coin, 8. 1402 = 1480 A.D., corresponds with 884-85 A.H., 
the latest epigraphical date te Sultan Shamsu-d-din Vasuf 
Shah is the month of Muharram of the year 885 A.H.* So that 
reign of that sovereign.* This Yusuf Shah died in 887 A.H. 
according to the Tarikh-i Ferishta, the Riyaz-us-salatin and the 
Tabagat-i-Akbari. The inference is therefore that Sylhet was 
conquered some time between sealed A.H. (1480-82 A.D.). 
R. D. BANERSI. 
207, NISARS OF SHAHJAHAN. 
The nisar of Shahjahan issued from the Akbarnagar mint, 
published by Lt.-Colonel Nevill in article No. 198 of Numis- 
] oclge ag of Coins in the — Museum, peg ag Vol. I, p. 308. 
PL SRR, 2 History of a, ol. II, p. 216. 
8 Raveastint s Gaur and inscriptions, p. 55 aie 
# J.A.S.B. 0.8., Vol. XLII. 1873, pt. I, p. 277. 
