Vol. Il, No, 9.] Inscription on Suri dynasty coins. 443 
N.S.] 
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originated this phrase on his coins; his immediate successors 
naturally kept on the complimentary epithet. 
The expression wri} i Lio is generally attached to the lagab 
of the Sultan, in the case of Shir Shah, 
see Dr. Hoernle’s No. 15, where we have 
cr} 5 vod) Oey ; also Thomas’ Nos. 359, 
361, where we have on Islim Shah’s coins 
Grol » Lied) Je and the many predecessors 
of the Suri dynasty who used the same 
expression yo) y kia} on their coins, but always attached to the 
lagab, will readily come to the recollection of the veriest tyro in 
Indian numismatics. : 
It is therefore hoped that numismatists interested in coins of 
the Delhi Sultans will see their way to accepting this inscription, 
used solely by the Suri dynasty, having the expression gyot als} 
in the middle as terminating in who) (ud-dayyan), anyway until a 
better solution is arrived at, and read the whole obverse as 
wh} G2} xlsd} pc ove 3 translated as: “In the time of the 
Amir, the protector of religion, the just ie aes oo 
ince despatching the above paper, the following example o 
a Shir Shah coin has been met with. The diacritical marks to the 
left of the date can only belong to the & of why and would seem to 
put any other reading out of the question, making, as it does, 
sense which the hitherto accepted reading does not. A copy. be 
the coin from Volume LIX, of the J.A.8.B. for 1890, Plate ; 
fig. 12, is attached for ready reference. 
a, 
Two similarly placed dots in same volume, Plate III, fig. 13, 
have already been noticed in the body of this paper. 
