1921.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXV. 21 
It is no light matter to interfere with the accepted chain 
of history, but when acceptance involves the brushing aside of 
palpable dates as inconveniences, one can only feel surprise at 
the acquiescence displayed in the admittedly theoretical ex- 
planation given by one who, though the greatest expert of bis 
day, has shown himself, in many points of equal importance, 
liable to the common failing of mankind. H. Nervi. 
215. Tor CURRENCY OF THE PATHAN SULTANS. 
s in India is the extent of 
give a definite value to a*billon or copper coin, he displays 
the greatest diffidence. We have come to know coins by their 
types and weights, but few attempts have been made to give 
a denominational value to a particular type 
The subject is one of absorbing interest to the numisma- 
tist, and though the matter demands a great expenditure of 
labour in the way of research and the elaboration of detail, it 
is high time that a start should be made in removing a reproach 
to an exact science, and it is hoped that active numisma- 
tists will lend their aid in the quest after precision. In this 
paper it is not proposed to touch on the relation of gold to sil- 
ver, but merely to initiate an attempt to show that certain 
well-known coins may be described with greater accurac 
than “ the large billon of Firdz” or “ the small copper of Muba- 
rak,”’ 
Shah is no higher than 166 grains. 
