566 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1910. 



/. (Jhiydsii-d-Din Balban. 



Copper. 



Weight— 30 grs. Size— -6 



Mint— Fakhrabad. 



Obverse. Reverse. 



In double circle. In circle 



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The only mint of Balban published by Thomas was Dehli. 

 Subsequently silver coins of Lakhnauti mint became known, 

 and specimens are in the Indian Museum. Then in the first 

 Numismatic Supplement to the Journal of the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal, Mr. Nelson Wright published a rupee and a copper 

 coin of Balban struck at Sultanpur. The copper coin was an 

 'adli of the usual type, but on the reverse it bore the words 



jj u>(ldLj instead of <^lAa o^flsu. 



The ' adli now published adds a fourth to the three known 

 mints of Balban. It is not a good specimen, but the inscription 

 Ba Fakhrabad appears to be quite clear. Fakhrabad was 

 presumably some place in or near the province of Bengal. 



//. Shamsu-d-Din Mahmud Shah. 



Billon. 



Weight— 50 grs. Size— -65. 



Date— 718. 



Obverse. Reverse. 



fcrf*J| J ^ via ^IkLJi 



This remarkable coin was picked out of a large number of 

 silvery billon coins of the Dehli Sultans covering the period 

 from Mu'izzu-d-Din Kaiqubad to Muhammad Tughlaq- It is of 

 a common Dehli type, but the king's name is new. I could 

 find no reference to Shamsu-d-Din Mahmud in any of the 

 usual standard works and catalogues, but ultimately I found a 

 paragraph in Mr. C. J. Rodgers' "Coin Collecting in Northern 

 India," which I proceed to quote verbatim. 



11 During the reign of Mubarak Sftiah a coin was struck 

 bearing the name of Shamsu-d-Din Mahmud Shah. We do not 

 know who he was. In the second vear of his reicrn the Emperor 



