Kebr 



y, 1917.J 



Annual Report. 



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Sassanian numismatics. The publication of new coins shows 

 that no field in India has yet been exhausted. The chief need 

 of the present time is the collation and co-ordination of past 

 contributions, and the Numismatic Society is working system- 

 atically towards this end. The difficulties are great, not the 

 least being that of the cost involved in securing satisfactory 

 reproductions. 



During the past year thirteen lots of Treasure Trove coins 

 have been sent to the Society, and a detailed account of them 

 with their provenance is appended. No coins of peculiar in- 

 terest have been sent in, but there were two useful finds of 

 Mu gli als. Among these were the following rare coins: Aurang- 

 zeb-Ilahabad Baldat of 1071-3 R., Bhakhar 1076-8 R , Zaf- 

 arabad 1070-3 R., and 1075-7 R., and a fine series of Gulkanda 

 coins of that sovereign ; and Muhammad Shah of Haidarabad, 

 Farkhanda Bunyad 1143-13 R. There was a small find of the 

 rare rupees of the Bahmani Dynasty, but these were too muti- 

 lated to be worth preserving. The only other find worth not- 

 ing was that of 330 copper coins of the Malwa (Hoshang 

 Shah) and Jaunpur Kings ; but in this there was no coin of 



special interest. 



The majority of the coins went to Nagpur Museum, in 

 which the Mughal series must now be very well represented. 



Treasure Trove dealt with by the Society during 1916. 



(l) 



(2) 



(3) 



(4) 



(6) 



(7) 

 (8) 



(9) 



(10) 

 (H) 



Nature of Find. 



Undecipherable thick 



Copper coins 

 Mahratta struck 

 Mughal rupees 

 Fire altar type of Raj- 



putana 

 Mahratta of Katak and 



Surat 

 Mahratta of Katak and 



Surat 

 Debased Ravish nag ar 



Sagar type 



Bahmani rupees and 1 

 copper (rupees illeg- 

 ible) 



Gadhiya paisa (one of 



11 in find) 

 Mahratta rupee 

 Malwa and Jaunpur . 



Mu glials . . 



(12) . 



( 13) Mahratta rupees 



Total 



* • 



Number in 

 Find. 



M 



9 

 42 



13 



200 



7 



8 



1 



I 



262 

 2 



545 



134 



68 



• • 



1 



330 



533 



Number dis- 

 tributed. 



M 



17 



M 



• 9 



• m 



• • 



* * 



99 



1 



64 



116 



65 



Provenance. 





Seoni Dt. 

 Narsingpur Dt 

 Betul. 



Mandla. 



Chhindwara. 



Chanda. 



Damoh. 



Drug. 



Nimar. 



Bhandara. 



Jubbulpore 



Wardha. 



Bhandara. 



