252 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, 1912. 
which differ from the prescribed pattern of the year. They are 
without any mint name on the reverse, and lack the couplet on 
the obverse, giving merely the name Ghaziu-d-din : possibly 
they were. coined for use as nisars. 
n the second year 1236 the title of Lakhnau was changed 
from Bled yi the ‘ Abode of Government’ <iblJ! ts the 
‘ Abode of the Sultan.’ This may roe have been intended 
as a further assertion of independen 
The following denominations ‘re said to have been coined 
quarter, eighth and sixteenth of a mohur. Of the three ‘last I 
have only seen specimens coined by Wajid ‘Ali, but it is quite 
possible that similar coins of the other kings may turn up since 
the ee sizes in silver are known. In silver there 
were in the same way the rupee, half, a eighth, and 
sixteenth of a ae In most cases the rupee die was made to 
serve for the smaller pieces, so that they are very imperfect, 
but Ghaziu-d-din, Nasiru-d-din, and oo Ali in certain years 
had i es of the required sizes 
200 grains) is the = oily copper coin known to have been issued 
by the first four kings. There is a coin of Wajid ‘Ali, of half 
this weight (No. 67), in the British a eae fees a + Bote of 
the year 1270 of careful workmanship is no 
Ghaziu-d-din died on ! Oct. 20th, 1827 (8th, Rabr T, 1243) ; 
and was succeeded by his son Nasiru-d-din Haidar. For the 
rst two years of os i the following couplet appears on 
the obverse of his co: 
5 a 80} Bs ase 5a yy 
Ble wlegle Glia sl Aye seas 
‘In the world, by the grace of God, the royal coin has 
en struck with (the name of) the king of the world,’ 
Sulaiman Jah, the high exalted one.’? In 1245, 3 R., 
the obverse wiceea was altered, the following Srila 
being substitu 
as JE b= Jas y = d3 &Sve 
Ble sl) orm Gott ah Coogee OSU 


; Beale, 19th Oct. 1827 (27th Rabi'-ul awal 124 8). 
2 The only record of : this name that I have been able to find occurs 
in an acco he ‘‘ Princes of India officer in the service of 
H.E.LC.,’’ published in Edinburgh, 1833. ‘ np the decease of G 
ood-deen Hyder in 1827, he was on 9th Oct. of that rer set by 
his son Shah Zaman, who is styled His Majesty, A boo: r Kootub- 
ood-deen, Soliman Jah, Zaman Padshah, king of Oude. 
