620 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1910. 



taken to collate the information that could be derived from the 

 principal local collections. These are as follows : 



(a) The Shillong Cabinet of 176 specimens including a 



(referred 



as 



Museum 



described 



i 



Indian Museum, Calcutta, Vol. 1, Part III, pp. 294 — 307) 



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C.S., late Deputy Commissioner, Sibsagar, who kindly for- 

 warded for my inspection 62 selected specimens which he 

 believed were undescribed [B]. 



(d) My own collection of about 130 specimens [H. E. S.]. 



In addition to the above, (e) Mr. Gait, in the course of his 

 researches on Assamese history, opened at Sibsagar a register 

 of Assamese coins in which 242 coins are described. These 

 include most of the Ahom coins in the British Museum as well 

 as some of the Assamese coins in the Shillong collection, 

 abstract of the information contained in the register is si 



An 



in tabular form on page 3 of his Beport on the Progress of 



Historical Besearch 



Assamese 



are also in the possession of Lieut.-Col. Gurdon, I. A., Commis- 

 sioner of the Assam Valley, and Mr. R. Burn, C.S., Deputy 

 Commissioner, Gonda, U.P. Mr. Burn's collection formerly 

 belonged to Dr. White Kiner. 



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XXVI and XXVII had been selected and forwarded to the Sur- 

 vey Office at Calcutta for reproduction when I learnt that a 

 catalogue of the 300 Assamese coins in the British Museum had 

 already been prepared for publication by Mr. J. Allan of the 

 Department of Coins and Medals of that institution. From 

 the advance proof of his paper for the Numismatic Chronicle l 

 that Mr. Allan was good enough to supply me with, it was 

 evident that a detailed catalogue of Assamese coins would be 

 superfluous, but, on the other hand, sufficient materials were 

 now available to render possible a discussion of the bearings of 

 Assamese coin inscriptions on the statements made in the 

 Buranjis, the indigenous histories of Assam that Mr. Gait has 



kn 



History of 



Assam only commenced with the accession of Rudra Simba 

 in 169H A.D., while the last date found on an Assam coin is 

 1743 Sfaha ( = 1821 A.D.). For this period of 125 years more than 



750 Selected coins ATA Ai'tViAr patnlnmiArl nr Viswa -naAdftd thrOUffh 



1 1909, pp. 300—331. 



