424 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [(N.S., XVIII, 
Obverse : ft ylblt 
Load) gle oesro abe 
Reverse. As in the coin of Nasiruddin, previously des- 
cribed, except that at the end of the first line #s+' occurs 
instead of the incorrect pbes w. 
Though the name of the suzerain is only given as 
Muhammad, there can be no doubt that the monarch in 
question is Muhammad ibn Tughlaq. The date of the coin is 
probably 726. 
Only five coins (two gold and three silver) struck by Baha- 
dur after his reinstatement in Eastern Bengal have been re- 
corded ' and these all bear the date 728 and mint name Hazrat 
Sunarginw. The inscription on these ‘coins, as given by 
Thomas in the case of the silver coin, runs as follows :— 
tel cyl wthl-J} xlo gle 
Reverse (Area): s\% G45 wy come al Gill yo's G2 
(Margin) : led alae > Gao wy esu aS Sf oe 
Kyler y wire y 
from Bahadur by the Dehli Sultan. 
For the approximate date of Bahadur’s death we must turn 
to a.consideration of the coins struck by Muhammad ibn Tugh- 
laq in Bengal as well as a rather complicated argument that 
can be gathered from the pages of Ibn Batitah. 
The dates and mints of all the Bengal coins of Muhammad 
that I have been able to trace are summarised in the fol- 
lowing table :— 

! Thomas, Initial Coinage of Bengal, 1, p. 55; and idem., II p. 38: 
JA; S.B., 1921, Num. Suppl., p. 153. There is also a sixth (silver) spect 
men of this coinage in the Indian Museum Cabinet. 
