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



Reverse : ;*&*> j***> f 



U 



arranged as in Fig. 8. 



The word *i*> on the Obverse is a conjectural, though 

 probable, reading. Above it comes on some specimens what 



• ma hut onlv the two middle 



seems 



f 



figures are quite clear. The year 1068 Hijri was the second 

 regnal year of 'All II. 



, is one of the many 

 whom the Shi* as re 



Thus by the Reverse legend, ' Slave of Haidar, the Rank- 

 breaker/ 'All II, the ghl 'a king, proclaimed his fealty to 'All 



Khalifa 



Type X {Plate XXXIX, Figure 9). 



Number of specimens 16: (a) 5 (Cousens); 4 (ThanawaJa); 



1 (Kotwal). 



(b) 3 (Cousens). 



(c) 3 (Cousens). 



1. Reign: Sikandar : A.H. 1083—1097. 



2. Diameter : (a) 75 ; (6) -65 ; (c) *6 inch. 



3. Weight : (a) 178 grs. (average of 10). 



(6) 117 grs. (average of 3). 

 (c) 58 grs. (average of 3). 



Obverse: *sj& j^kC* ^lUu* (-ai Ai** 



arranged as in Fig. 9, 

 Reverse : ejUL. ,JUf 



8 



arranged as in Fig. 9. 1 



On another specimen the date recorded on the Obverse 

 is Imv. 



The title on the Reverse, " Khusrau (Chosroes), the Con- 

 queror of the World ? " is also present on some of Nadir Shah s 

 Persian coins, and on some of the Durrani king Mahmud Shan. 



o 



From the foregoing description it is clear that the Bijapur 

 copper currency consisted for the most part of coins of three 

 denominations, weighing, respectively, about 60, 120, and 180 

 grains. Evidently, however, some of the coins that were 



The 



were not decipherable on 



the coins from which Mr. Cousens made his " reconstruct on.' * Both 

 these letters are, however, distinctly seen on the specimen that Mr. 

 Kotwal kindly sent me for inspection. 



