150 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1910. 



striking similarity between this gold tanka and that of 'Ala'u-d- 

 Dln Mas'ud previously described. The mint is probably Dihll 

 and the date 644 A.H. (idem, p. 64). The gold coin given as 

 No. 133 of the I.M.C. is altogether different in tvpe as the 



areas are round and there is a marginal inscription on both 

 sides. 



Attention may also be drawn in connexion with these 

 coins to the fact that the Gauhati find lends considerable 

 corroboration to the statement of the TabaqaUi-Nasiri regard- 

 ing the invasion of Kamrup by Ikhtiyaru-d-Din Yuzbak Tughril 

 Khan, the Governor who assumed independence about the year 

 5 A.H. with the title Sultan Mughisu-d-Din Yuzbak, and who 

 was killed in Kamrup in 655. The find may be regarded as a 

 relic of the expedition, either deposited by a Musalman soldier 

 in Gauhati or, more probably, loot captured from the Musal- 

 mans by the then inhabitants of Gauhati in one of the engage- 



that led to MughTsu-d- Din's defeat and deat 

 History of Assam (p. 35) confuses this Tughr 



Mr 



Tughril, 



who also, on declaring himself independent, assumed the title 

 Mughisu-d-Din and who was killed by the soldiers of the 

 Emperor Balban in Tippera (c. 681 A.H.); vide Thomas, Initial 

 Coinage of Bengal, 1866, p. 34. 



C. — The First Bengal Coinage of Sber Shah. 



In the June number of the Proceedings for 1898, pp. 169 to 

 173, the late Dr. Bloch described a find of 317 coins (chiefly of 

 Husaini dynasty) which was made in December, 1897, by one 

 Girish Chandra Aich Ray, a talukdar of Jasodal, a village 2 miles 

 east of the Sub-Divisional headquarters of Kishoreganj in the 

 Mymensingh District. Besides two strange coins, which have 

 not yet been satisfactorily read (vide I.M.C, Bengal coins, 

 Nos. 239 and 240) , the most i nteresting coins in the find were three 

 of the Emperor Humayun Shah, probably minted at Gaur, 

 while he was in residence there in A.H. 945 (1538 A.D.) after 

 er Khan had retreated to Upper India (vide Wright's I.M.C, 

 Vol. Ill, Mughal Emperors, Humayun, Nos. 21 and 22 and 

 Plate i) . Only a small proportion of this find seems to have been 



as 



Sub-Division 



coins 



e in the Kisfcoregan; 

 similar to those des 



am on 



are 



had defeated 



A.H. and assumed his new title of Sher Shah. In the same 

 year he also recaptured Gaur from Humayun's governor Jahan- 

 gir Quli Beg. 



