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54 A COIN OF 'Ala-ud-din op Khwarixm, 



Eai^ly in 1905, a friend in Bangalore who went to Kabul ou a 

 •commercial mission, brouglit me back a good many coins of various 

 kinds. Among tliem was a gold coin whicli I could not read. 

 I showed it to one or two friends who were equally puzzled, but, 

 on sending it tf> Dr. 0, Codiington, he identified it and returned 

 it with the following note: 



*'Yonr coin is one of the Khwarizmi Shah *Ala-ud din 

 Muhammad bin Takash (A.H. 596—617) ; mint Tirmi^h ; un- 

 dated. It is similar, I think, to No. 49 of Hoernle's '' Central 

 Asiatic Coins*' published in J.A.S.B, for 1889, and to No. 9358 



of Rodgers' Catalogue of the Coins of the Indian Musrum, 

 Part I, p. 22. 



The word on top of the reverse is read by both Hoernle and 

 Rodgers doubtfully as iJ^ or iJ^ but on your coin I read 



)h doubt J^y . i.e. Tirmidh or Termez. This place is 



Bukhara 



town 



the time of the Abbasid Kbalifs to that of the Timurids, but 

 this is the first time that I have seen the name on a Khwarizm 



Shah 



com. 



Muhammad 



father Takash by subduing' Bukhara, Samarkand, Oran and 

 Afghanistan: it is quite i^easonable, therefore, that he should have 

 Termez as one of his mint towns." 



It will be seen that the coin in the I.M. Catalogue weiglis 

 only47'81 grains instead of 7i grains as mine does; the dimensions 

 of the former are not given In the Catalogue, but my coin 

 measures 9 of an inch. 



J. A. BOUBDILLON. 



