156 



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



Husainf coin No. 7 



28" (the I.M.C. ex- 

 amples range from 

 118"— 1-25"). 



Weight . 



152-4 grains (but vide Nara 

 Narayan's coin, No. ii 



above, for weight of 157*5 

 grains. As time went on 

 the weight decreased still 

 more — cf. Pran Narayan's 



British 



1641 



coins in 



the 



Museum — and it was by 

 the later standards that 

 the weight of the ordi- 

 nary Koch half-coins was 

 fixed). 



grains (in the 

 I.M.C. examples, 

 the weight ranges 

 from 161-5— 164-5 

 grains). 



App ear - 



ance. 



Identical, a 4-line inscription being enclosed in 

 each case in a double circle with a row of dots 

 between. The reproduction in the Koch coin 

 of one of the groups of three dots from the 



Husain 



specially noticeable. 1 



Koch kings 



the 



com belonging to the Muhammadan kings of Bengal, a brief 

 consideration of the conquests of Husain Shah is necessary. 

 Husain Shah defeated his predecessor Shamsu-d-Din Muzaffar 

 Sjiah either at the end of A.H. 898 (1493 A.D.) or the begin- 

 ning of 899, 2 and from the conquest of Bengal he forthwith 



1 The inscription on the Husaini coin runs as follows : 



Obverse. 



4i> 



UdJf 



Reverse. 



..WL 





crt 





t 



*u 





There is a mosque inscription of Muzaffar at Panduah, dated 

 , f n * 98 (cf. Blochmann, Contributions I, p. 291), while most of 899 

 must be allowed to Hiisa" — - ----'* " 



referred to. 



**«****, vvwr^t/^orw I, p. 291), while most of 899 

 in Shah to enable him to issue the coins next 



