Vol. XI, Nos. 10 & 11.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXVI. 495 
[N.S.] 
very similar has long been in the Cabinet of the Bombay 
Asiatic Society, but its margins are wholly illegible, whereas 
this newly discovered specimen is in excellent condition, with 
almost every letter of its legends perfectly distinct. 
Here are the coin’s elements :— 
etal: A. 
Ruler: Ahmad Shah. 
Date: a.H. 835. 
Mint : not recorded. 
Obverse— In square. 
De (ys gles dent 
pre wy xls 
ass wold sls 
Margin, upper: 4 ey 
» Tight: eJtlils , 
Reverse— 
cnet 3 Lao} 
pone 
sul ro 
The margins, it will be noted, bear the year of issue in 
Arabic words. : ae 
wile ules wets Ured 
or 5 +30 +800 (= a.H. 835, corresponding to A.D. 1431-32). _ 
Nearly all the dated coins of the Gujarat Saltanat give 
durine the decade a.#. 870-880. Mr. Master in a recent letter 
safonicat oes he has specimens dated 872, 874, 877, 878, 879 
and 87x. : : 
Ahmad Shah’s father, we note, is styled on this coin 
Muhammad Shah, and his grandfather Muzaftar Shah, and 
these were their regnal names. Before their assumption, 
however, of independent sovereignty, and while still subject to 
the paramount Dehli Sultans, they were known the father as 
Tatar Khan, and the grandfather as Zafar Khan. 
