1922.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXVI. N. 37 
With regard to the epithet used after Lbrahim, he says: 
“After many attempts to decipher them, the last two words on 
the obverse of Types III, IV, and V (all having the same leg- 
end as noted here) still remain doubtful. They may possibly 
read (,v! s bila athni, ‘without a second,’ ‘the unique,’ but 
certainly the penultimate letter seems on every specimen to be 
not nin, but lam.” Now if we turn to Plate XX XIX of the 
same number, we find Nos. 2, 3 and 4 of the plate! correspond- 
ing to Types III, IV and V in the above note. Since handling 
the coins of Ibrahim ‘Adil Shah II and carefully looking at 
these figures, I have come to the conclusion that the word is 
not (.b! ty but is most probably (<b 4! which means the “‘ Friend 
of the Weak.” In Muhammadan numismatics and epigra- 
phy, especially where artistic arrangement is to be observed, 
clerical accuracy is often sacrificed for the sake of symmetry and 
bisects not only the surface of the coin but also the lettering 
on it. Reading from the bottom, as the coin is to be read, we 
find ! (alif), (S) (be), * (he) & (be) and J (lam) on the right of 
the central ali/, and! (alif), » (mim), ~ (be) J (lam), and ¢¢ (ye) 
on the left; while, (re), cs (ye) and! (alif) are divided into 
two parts. This big ali/ also shows that it is the first letter of 
the second half of the legend on the obverse, there being seven 
letters of Ibrahim (st!y!) and seven of abala bali (4 ¥2!). 
The same remarks apply to fig. 3 of the plate and this type 
we find exhibits more artistic taste than that displayed in ay 
2. Here not only the letters and the scalloped border are divid- 
ed into two halves by the alif of .& 34! (which is not ma ge 
minent as in fig. 2), but the outer circle of dots is also esc 
into two parts so that there are twenty dots on st 
and twenty on the left of the altf. Figure 4 also has the if 
between Wo (bala) and (,b (bali). 
What I have said above, seemed at first to me & meré 
conjecture ; but while perusing a MS. of the Kitab i-Nauras, 

| Itshould be noted that the coins illustrated in the plate are recon 
structions. Ed. <1 ¢ Adi 
2 The ** Kitab-i-nauras” was written by ipeenie sparing 
Bijapir. The MS. was bought in June 1921, for the #rin 
Museum. 
