1922.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXVI. N. 15 
the British Museum Catalogue as dated A.H. 803. I have 
lately had the opportunity of examining the coin in question 
and have no hesitation in reading the date it bears as A.H, 
833. 
Another coin of Ibrahim Shah was catalogued in the Ellis 
Sale Catalogue as dated A.H. 893, but I have not seen the coin 
and in the absence of more reliable proof to the contrary it 
would be wisest to reject the date and accept al-Badaoni’s 
statement that Mubarak Shah died in A.H. 804. The earliest 
reliable date for a coin of Ibrahim Shah is A.H. 813—one of 
this date having been recorded by Thomas and one of similar 
date being in the collection of Colonel H. R. Nevill. 
There is also doubt as to the accuracy of Firishta’s state- 
ment that Ibrahim died in A.H. 844 (A.D. 1440) “after a 
Jong reign of upwards of forty years.” Coins of Ibrahim Shah 
are in existence dated A.H. 845, 846, 847, but coins of his 
successor are also in existence dated in sequence from the 
year A.H. 844. J am in possession of a billon coin of Mahmid 
dated very clearly A.H. [8]36 and Colonel Nevill has a coin of 
similar type dated A.H. 837. The double issue during these 
years is unaccounted for in historical records. Ibrahim must 
have been of considerable age at the time of his death and it 
is possible that his eldest son Mahmiid set up independence 
before his demise. 
The Lag or honorary title assumed by Mahmud 
Shah was “Saifu-d-dunya wa-d-din,” but, if his coins have 
been correctly read, he would appear to have indulged in two 
surnames or kunyats, a not uncommon habit of Muhammadan 
kings of that time and one regarding which Dr. Hoernle 
wrote an interesting article in the Journal of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal in 1883.! is 
On his gold issue Mahmid used the surname Abil Muja- 
hid, whereas on a small billon issue he called himself Abul 
Muzaffar. It may here be noted that Blochmann in his 
‘Geography and History of Bengal” in the Journal of the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal” 1873 (pp. 304-7) gives the lagab of 
Mahmid in an inscription on a mosque in Bihar as Nasiru-d-din. 
This is not in accordance with numismatic evidence. 
The historical records of Mahmid’s reign are again a mere 
description of a series of military events—of wars carried out 
against tha neighbouring kingdom of Malwa and of attempts to 
Secure the throne of Dehli. Mahmiid had married a daughter 
of Sultan Alau-d-din ‘Alam Shah of Dehli and as he also claim- 
ed descent from the Sayyads there was reason why he should 
aspire to oust the Lodis from their suddenly acquired — 
‘On at least one occasion he was within measurable distance 

‘*A New Find of Muhammadan Coins of Bengal (Indepe: 
T ndent 
Period),” J.A,8.B., 1883, pp. 212-216. ae 
