22 N. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
of a coin which he classed as a separate issue of Mahmad Shah. 
I haveseen the coins and I have been favoured by the Curator 
of the Lahore Museum with a set of rubbings; | prefer to 
consider them as intended for coins of this type of half 
weight. The coins are roughly struck and are seks in the 
formation of their legends. The three specimens catalogued 
by Rodgers averaged 78°3 grs. each and ‘6 inch in diameter. 
Type II bears for all four kings the legends already des- 
cribed under Type I, there is however no date on the coin 
and the obverse legend is somewhat differently arranged. 
Average weights Ibrahim .. 50.45 grs. 
Mahmud ws De O. Bre, 
Muhammad .. 56 — grs.* 
Husain ac ae OSES. 
specimen of the issue of Ibrahim weighing as high as 
60 grs. is in the Indian Museum collection but it is corroded ; 
coin of Mahmid Shah is half a grain higher than the highest 
of Ibrahim Shah—a specimen in the Indian Museum Collection 
weighing 56°5 grs. 
The only specimen of this issue of Muhammad in m! 
bollention weldin 56 grs.; a specimen in my collection minted 
by Husain weighs as high as 60 grs. 
‘Type III is confined to a single issue of Mahmad Shah 
and its circulation ~~ possibly have been limited to the 
mintages of one year. The coin was originally figured by 
Marsden under his No. DCCL v but the margin on his specimen 
was illegible and he read the date A.H. 844 on the coin wrongly 
oo It was again figured in the Catalogue of Coins in 
the British Museum Muha mmadan States—(No. 295); ; the 
margin was again not read and the error of Marsden in reading 
the date as A.H. 849 was repeated. I suspect that Marsden’s 
coin and the specimen in the British Museum are one and the 
same coin. The figure in the plate in my own copy of the British 
Museum Catalogue does not allow of the date being read with 
any certainty ; and in the absence of a better specimen bearing 
this date T am not prepared to accept the year A.H. 849 as 
po - the vears of issue of this type of the coinage of ahentia 
a 
The coin was described by Marsden and in the British 
Museum Catalogue as being of copper and Colonel H. R. Nevill 
when describing some specimens dated A.H. 844 in the Journal 
of the Asiatic. Society of Bengal, Numismatic Supplement 
No. XXVI (“A new copper coin of Jaunpir”’), under the 
