588 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [August, 1907. 



Obverse . Reverse, 



In square of double In square of double lines, 



111 



les. 



em-losed in circle. 



r 



Lcjf 



ejltJLJi jUjlU Margin ? . . . tjjjii »^1J|^ . . . . 



Margin illegible. 



Plate vi, 2 



Bengal. 



A small error seems to have occurred in reading the coins of 

 Shams-ud-din Ilyas Shah of Bengal. The first line of the reverse 

 has been read in the British Museum Catalogue of Muham- 

 madan States (p, 15) as J^^\ iJ-kLJi^ aud this readin^r is repeated 

 in the Indian Museum Catalogue, Sultans of Delhi, p. 140 

 (obverse). Mr. Thomas (J.A.S.B., 1867, p. 57) read ^j^h iJkL.i\ 

 on coins of the Firozabad mint> and this reading is borne out by a 

 number of coins recently found in the 24-Parganas. It should, 

 hpweyer, be noted that Mr. Thomas gave J^W( on coins of Sunar- 



^1 



gaon. 



The same find contained the coin described below, which is 



of the greatest interest, as being the first half-rupee known of the 

 Bengal Kings. 



L 



Obverse. Reverse. 



In circle 



^ . Maro;ins illeerible. 



o o 



M. -85". 81 grains. Plate vi, 3 



R. .Born. 



56. Four Rare Mitghal Rupees. 



■ In June last one of the money-changers, who have occasion- 

 ally supplied me coins, brought, to my house a friend of his fi'oni 

 the village of Sarkhej, sotne six miles from Ahraadabad, This 

 man, telling me he had some coins for sale, fovtiiwith divested 

 himself of a very shabby-looking bundle, from which he poured 

 forth, on the table before me some 120 rupees, all of them in 

 fairly good condition, though in all, without exception, the silver 



had become so tarniRhfid a.a to anrvftAr nf a /?intrv hlaolr n/^loni- 



