768 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. |December, 1911. 
taking of the city of Kanauj during the reign of Altamsh: itis 
a coin struck to commemorate the reduction of the city. In 
1881, Dr. Hoernle published the coin for the first time.! and he 
read the marginal legend containing the mint-name as :— 
; os ciyh ... edd odgt oh gs? 2a8)} 132 ye 
Later, in 1907, the Hon. Mr. H. Nelson Wright, in his 
Catalogue of Coins in the Indian Museum, gives the reading of 
the marginal legend of this coin as :— 
¥ 9 cP? Giy[S] ... aielt Ie os Laat we ? 
The marginal legend of this coin taken by itself shows _ 
that Mr. Wright’s reading is the correct one, but the legend 
should be compared with that of another one, a coin of the 
Bengal Sultan Mughisuddin Yuzbak, whose coin also was pub- 
lished by Dr. Hoernle at the same time.? On comparison it 
appears certain that what has been read by Mr. Wright as 
zs is really the name of a place and the second name 
beginning with ‘‘Ko” seems to be Gwaliyar or Gwalior. 
I have examined the coin repeatedly during the last three 
years, and I am almost convinced that the second name ought 
to be read as ‘‘ Gwaliyir.’’ There are three dots over the first 
Ghiyas-ud-din Iwaz, one feels certain that it is a name am 
to assign two of the dots to the first letter, making it Qaf. 
the accepted spelling for the name of the ancient Kanyakubja 
in Perso-Arabic Historical Literature. These coins are very 
Sikandar Shah of the First Diyas Shahi Dynasty.* lt was 
struck in the ‘country of Chawalistan or Kamra’’ in the 
