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On his coins he calls 1235 his _ year (o~ ), and as there are 
apparently no coins of 1234 with o=!, it seems probable that, 
or purposes of coinage, he vedionée his first regnal year as 
beginning on Ist Moharram 1235, not ee it worth 
iastie he ha "coined in 1 name of Shah ‘Alam, and had 
adopted for the obverse of his coins the legend on the reverse 
of the Banaras rupees: of the 26-san issue” (1211 1233 H.) which 
had been superseded in that very year in Banaras by rupees of 
the Farrukhabad type. These coins also retain the 26 san on 
the reverse. The second issue has the date 1234 on the obverse 
and the year 5 on the reverse, that is the fifth year of his 
Nawabi; the type is the same as the coins of 1235. This 
second kind cannot have been r deena earlier than 22nd Rajab 
1234, when the fifth year of his Nawabi i began. 
It is possible, then, that the 26-san coins were used during 
the earlier part of 1234, that is for seven months up to 22nd 
Rajab, and the 5-san coins after that date. On the other hand 
the 5-san coins may have been used only during the last ten 
y 
The latter view is supported by the UE a eig rarity of the 
5-san coins: there is however one fact which seems to con- 
tradict this theory, the Coronation attr” which, one would 
imagine, was issued on the Coronation day, has the datesa' 
which is applied, as we have seen, to no coin of 1234. There is 
no Hijra date on the medal so it may have been struck on 
Nauroz 1235. On the other hand it is rat et though 
exceedingly unlikely, that the 1235 5: coins were in use 
from 18th Z‘u-l-hijja 1234. The coins of the 5th Nawabt year 
1234 and of all succeeding years bear the following couplet :— 
CHIE 95 Gy" E9515 9 dy? 35 Hee 
‘* Ghaziu-d-din Haidar, of lofty lineage, King of the World, 
struck coins in gold and silver by the Brace we great and 
Almighty God.’’ There are two coins of 1235. I R. (Nos. 8and 
9), the only Awadh coins of the kind that I hive come across, 
Had the anal year started from 18th Z‘u Lhijja 1234, ole would 
hie. been necessary to change the Hijra a e after ten days each 
succeeding regnal year. In the case of al other Kiugs of “Await 
there are two Hijra dates for each regnal abe since the regnal year 
begins in the middle of the — a in each case. Hence there are 
& you 
2 As Nelson Wright has “pointed out (Introduction to 1.M.C 
Catalogue, "Val. III, under the name Muhammadabad), this series was 
probably ‘struck for currency i Awadh, They are known in the 
Lucknow bazars as Asafu-d-daula rupees. 
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