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Vol. VII, No. 10.] Numismatic Supplement. 703 
(W.8.] 
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Palas seal 
to the few coins known of Purbandar. Dr. G. P. Taylor has a 
rupee of Farrukhsiyar of this mint (Num. Suppl. No. IV, 27, 
and Catalogue of the Indian Museum, vol. iii, p. Ixxiii. 
and there can be little doubt that this adds another 
Ahmad Shih. 
Metal, Gold. 
Weight, 168-8 grns. 
ize *8 inch. 
Date, 1164: 4. 
Mint, Lahor. 
Rupees of this mint of Ahmad are not uncommon. For 
notice of the muhar see Num. Supp! xi, 6 
‘Alamgir II. 
Metal, Gold. 
Weight. 167: e grns. 
Sizs, “75 a 
Date, ] 
Mint, Jaipur Sanne 
There is another muhar of this mint of the year 6 in the 
Indian Museum Catalogue, no. 2183. 
J. ALLAN, 
British Museum. 
99. A Sitver DirHAM OF THE SASSANIAN QUEEN PURAN- 
Mr. Maneckjee Rustomjee Sethna of Bombay has kindly 
supplied a photograph, and has also given me permission to 
publish a description of a rare dirham obtained by him so 
recently as last January (1911) in the local baz4r. When at his 
request I set to classifying his Sassanian coins, I thought at first 
this ne should be attributed to Shirin, the Queen Consort 
of Khusrau II (Parviz), _but further examination revealed the 
own right reigned over Persia for some sixteen months of the 
years A.D. 630 and 631. Superintending, like the kings before 
her, the various departments of the State, she _ proof of high 
ability to manage ornaeyee affairs. In the exercise of her royal 
powers she was not duly capable but a , and was also 
generous in rewarding her councillors and provincial Governors 
for the services they rendered. 
