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



obtained at Jhansi, and on enquiry from the Tahsildar of that 

 town I was informed that the old name of Jhansi was Balwant- 



and that there is still a Muhalla in the town known as 

 ;al/ ' i.e., mint, which is evidence of the issue of coins. The 

 t coin carries the mint back to the reign of Muhammad 



nagar 



Shah. 



4. JR. MUHAMMAD SHAH. 



Mint — ? Qandahar. 



Date — A.H. 115 x Regnal year, 30. 



Obverse. — Usual inscription in three lines. Date to 



right of top line. 



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Reverse. — Usual arrangement. Mint name in bottom 



line. 



The first two letters of the mint name are not quite distinct, 

 but there are traces of the top of the <j and to its left a dot 

 over the place where the & should be. If, however, the 

 reading is correct, it is not easy to understand how a coin came 



Qandahar 



Muhammad 



nvader 



of Hindustan, took possession of Qandahar in 1737 A.D. 

 (A.H. 1150-1151) and built a new city. Qandahar was taken 

 by Ahmad Khan Durrani some ten years later, and it is just 

 possible that in the confusion of these troublous times, the 

 Dehli Emperor may have seized the opportunity to renew the 

 old Mughal claim to Qandahar by issuing coins professing to be 

 struck there under his authority. But that there was any 

 striking of coinage at Qandahar itself in the name of Muhammad 

 Shah seems extremely improbable. 



H. Nelson Wright. 



79. Tre\sure Trove (Mughal.). 



Out of a find of 129 silver coins discovered in an earthen 

 pot while digging the foundation for a new building at Hanu- 

 man Tal in the Jubbulpore City, and sent to me for examina- 

 tion, I selected the following five rupees for a note in the Nu- 

 mismatic Supplement : — 



1. In the name of Shah 'Alam II. 

 A.H.— 1199. 



Regnal year — 26. 



Mint — Deogadh ? 

 Obverse. 



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