21. NUMISMATIC SUPPLEMENT No. XVIII. 
Note.—The numeration of the article below is continued 
from p. 132 of the ‘‘ Journal and Proceedings ’’ 
for 1912. 
108. Own THREE Goup Corns or THE ‘ApIL Suani Dynasty 
BisaPv 
It is a pleasure to be able to announce the discovery of 
three small gold coins of the ‘Adil Shahi currency. Casts of two 
m. 
the name of Muhammad Shah, they may be held to have 
issued during his reign, which extended from 1037 to 1067 4.8. 
The type of these two coins is identical with that of the same 
King’s copper coins, described on page 684, and illustrated on 
plate xxxix, No. 5, of the Numismatic Supplement, No. xv. 
The legends on the obverse and reverse, read consecutively, 
form the following couplet :— 
Bley HS} 258 deme 99 Oth Ve 
glo Kee Ayo Ody— 0 MeBO (gS! 
The weights of the coins are 51-7 and 51°8 grains, and the 
diameters are between °35 and ‘4 of an inch. 
belong to Colonel Biddulph, who has presented a - 
third specimen to the British Museum. 
_ Now that we have definite proof of the existence of ait 
‘Adil Shahi currency in both gold and copper, we may surely 
hope that the still undiscovered silver coins of this dynasty 
will soon come to light. 
ousens reminds me that Firishta, writing during the 
reign of Muhammad Shah’s predecessor, [brahim II, states that 
“ After the dissolution of the Bahmuny dynasty, the several 
“kings of the Deccan assumed the chutr, or canopy, and the 
‘‘ Khootba ; but none struck coins of gold in their own name, 
‘< or sounded the nobut five times daily, excepting the King of 
‘* Golconda, styled Kootb Shah.”’ Briggs’s Ferishta, IT. 300. 
It thus appears that Muhammad Shah was probably the first 
of the ‘Adil Shahi rulers to issue gold coins. 
Gro. P. Taylor. 
AHMADABAD: 
April, 1912. 
