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[N.S.] 



Mr. Gait notes however in his Postscript that 



(ii) the British Museum also possesses an identical coin. 



No coins of Raghudev's successors in the Eastern 

 Kingdom are known. 



IV. Bin NarIyan, 1622—1627. No coin known. 

 V. Pran Narayan, 1627 — 1666. Marsden, op cit., 



Nos. MCCV--MCCVII (Plate LII.) 



Weights: — 148, 146| and 142 grains respectively. 



The first two are both dated 1555 &aka (1633 A.D.) but 



the date of the third coin is illegible. If the engraving of the 



coin is a facsimile, the size is 1*20". 



This issue of coins seems to contradict the story given in 



Hunter's Statistical A ccount of Kuch Behar (p. 409) that Lakshml 

 Narayan was allowed to return to his kingdom from Dihlf 

 in 1618 A.D., on condition that he would in future strike 

 coin only in halves; nor can it be accounted for by Pran Nara- 

 yan being then in rebellion, as only five years later we find him 

 accompanying a Muhammadan force as ally up the Brahma- 

 putra against the Ahoms (Gait, History, p. 115). No full coin 

 however of any Raja subsequent to Pran Narayan is known, 

 and as the earliest specimens in the Shillong cabinet of the 

 half coins (" Nardyani Rupees M ) f described by Mr. Gait, belong 

 to this Raja, it would appear that Pran Narayan was the first to 

 mint such coins. 



The coin which served as a model to Nara Narayan is that 

 belonging to Husain Shah of Bengal, of which four specimens 

 ranging in date from A.H. 900—913 (1494—1517 A.D.) are men- 

 tionedin the recently published Indian Museum Catalogue (Vol. 

 II, Bengal series). For facility of reference a specimen of the 

 coin (found in the Murshidabad District) from my own cabinet 

 is reproduced as No. 7 of Plate XXII. The relationship of the 

 two coins will also be clearly evident from the following com- 

 parison. 



