Vol. ae No. 3.] Numismatic Supplement No. XVII. 125 
a.) 

Obverse, Reverse. 
url 
gue wie rae hero 
\ se cel dal div 
rinse 7 pike 
It purports to be a coin of ‘Azim struck in a.H. 1124, 
the first year of the reign, at Jahangirnagar. The Persian 
couplet is redolent of victory; the third line is missing, but the 
couplet probably runs something like this :— 
PEs Ae ole » 5 S 
oe wie p—ske seal 
The coin has been included without any comment among 
the issues of Farrukhsiyar, and is apparently still unique. The 
question arises whether it was struck by prince ‘Azim, or on his 
behalf, under circumstances which would justify his inclusion 
in the list of those pretenders and claimants of the Mughal 
line who assumed royal honours by striking coin. 
Mr. W. Irvine’s paper, “The Later Mughals,’ contains 
again vy : 
the battle at Jajau and the defeat of A‘zam Shah. 
ears of his absence, Jahandar Shah, the eldest son, from his 
inattention to public affairs, lost favour with his father, and 
spent most of his time in his separate government of Multan. 
In the earlier years of Bahadur Shah’s stay in the Kabul 
i is third son, Rafi‘u-sh-shan, was his principal 
adviser and favourite son. In time he was supplanted b 
father’s accession and for some time afterwards. But by the 
end of Bahadur Shah’s short reign, the preponderating influence 
rested with ‘Azimu-sh-shan, and this, together with the great 
wealth he had accumulated in Bengal and afterwards, pointed 
him out to all men asthe probable victor in the coming struggle. 
