132 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (March, 1912.] 
The coin is of silver with a slight alloy of copper. 
have not called the metal billon in view of the d mane: & - -~ 
word in Jevons’ ‘‘ Money and the rag of Exchange,’’ Edit 
S. King and Co., London, pp. 125, 126. ceaae ‘calls billon a a 
very low alloy of “ites and co ppe r’’ and cate that in France coins 
were current at one time containing 0 only one part of silver to five of 
alloy and that in Norway billon coins are in circulation consisting of 
G 
four or more times its es in ¢ opper 
It is of a type and weight hitherto unknown in the coins 
of Mahmid I. It appears that it was Mahmud I and not 
Muzaffar II who initiated what Mr. Wright on his iiticddeion 
to the Sultans of Gujarat, I.M.C., calls the 64 rati standard 
(? 115°2 grains). The coin is slightly worn in one or two 
places and its full weight would have been about 16 of Dr. 
Taylor’s units rather than 15, as he suggests for the weight of 
the coins of Muzaffar IT, which apparently correspond. 
It is especially interesting to note that the period 870- 
879 A.H. is the sole decade during the occupation of Gujarat 
by Ahmad Shah’s dynasty, in which the date on coins was 
expressed in (Arabic) words and not in figures. 
II. Billon. Weight 172 gers. Size °7. 
Mint [Ahmadabad. ] 
Date 878 A.H. in Arabic words. 
Obverse in circular area. 
wales! glo spev0 
in margin 
Abella y Garin yled ale 3 
eel x! wls Loot pels 
The type is distinctly that of Taylor, Guj. Sult. No. 43. 
ae. iPayicr has not published this weight of billon coin in his 
article on the coins of the Gujarat Sultanat referred to in brief 
peed though he has specimens of the type now in_ his 
cabinet. 
Reverse. 
There is a copper coin in my possession of the same type 
dated 879 A. H. _ The representation of the date in ede a 
possibly in imitation of Muhammad Tughlag, cf. I.M.C., 
p- 94, and as I have said on the previous ot seems to have 
been Sy force for the decade 870-879 A.H. o 
may be remarked that coins of this is decade are not 
often sin with. When Dr. Taylor wrote his article, there were 
five years of the decade still unrepresented by any metal. 
AHMADABAD : A.M 
ae . MASTER. 
