4s. NUMISMATIC SUPPLEMENT No. XX. 
Note.—T he numeration of the article below is continued 
from p. 424 of the “Journal and Proceedings ’’ for . 
IQt2. 
116. Corns or SHan SuHuUsA‘, SON or SHAH JAHAN. 
(With Plate XXVIII.) 
There are two rupees of Shah Shuja‘, the unsuccessful rebel 
son of Shah Jahan and claimant to the imperial throne, in the 
British Museum. They are both of the ‘square area’ type ex- 
tensively adopted by Shah Jahan, and as is so often and annoy- 
ingly the case, the dies have been much larger than the discs, 
and the important marginal inscriptions are almost illegible. 
These coins are Nos. 690 and 691 in the British Museum Cata- 
logue of the Coins of the Mughal Emperors of India, and their 
mints have been tentatively read as Akbarabad and Jalaonabad 
respectively. In N.S. VI, Mr. R. Burn, I.C.8., showed that 
these mint readings were probably incorrect—see also Mr. 
W. Irvine’s paper in N.S. XII—but he did not make any 
suggestion as to the mint, or the mints, of the coins of Shah 
Shuja‘. 
In addition to the two ‘square area’ type rupees in the 
British Museum, there is a rupee of a different type in the 
Lucknow Museum, which was described by Mr. Burn in the 
note already referred to. Just recently Dr. G. P. Taylor of 
Ahmadabad found another specimen resembling that at Luck- 
now, and four years ago I got a ‘square area’ type rupee like 
B.M. No. 690, in the Delhi Bazar. These five specimens are 
all that are known of Shah Shuja‘’s exceedingly rare currency. 
The two British Museum coins are different varieties of 
the same type. Comparing them with my own specimen, a 
of this ‘square area’ type, I find that the reverse inscriptions. 
(treating the Kalima side as the obverse) are :— 
Type A. Square areas. Variety (I) (B.M. No. 690). 
In square area :— cj sleal 
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