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copper coins. Of the gold coins, 451 are of various Pathan emperors 

 of Delhi, and 1 of the Bengal king Sikandar Shah. Of the 786 

 silver coins, 1 belongs to Ranjit Singh, 1 to Nadir Shah, and the 

 remainder to various Mughal emperors of Delhi. Among the 83 coins 

 of mixed silver and gold, 62 are later Indo-Scythians of the Kida type, 

 and 25 are Mughal forgeries. Among the 1,130 coins of mixed silver 

 and copper, there are 37 so-called punch-coins, 877 belong to differ- 

 ent Pathan emperors of Delhi or their cotemporaries, 159 to different 

 early Rajput Rajas and 57 to Tasovarman. The 5 copper coins are 

 all early Indo-Scythians or Bactrians. Detailed notices of all these have 

 been given in the special reports, printed in our Proceedings. Most of 

 the coins belong to well-known and often described and published types. 

 There ai'e, however, among them a few of special interest. In a hoard 

 of 477 coins discovered in Hoshangabad, there were found no less than 

 five unique Pathan gold niohurs, descriptions of which will be published 

 by Dr. Hoernle in our Journal. One of them is a new coin of Muham- 

 mad bin Tughlaq ; two belong to Grhiyasu-d-din Tughlaq II. ; one to Abu 

 Bakar, the son of Zafar Khan, and one to the Bengal Sultan Sikandar 

 bin Ilyas. I may also note the coins of Tasovarman and of Saifu-d-din 

 Hasan Qurlagh, in the August and November Proceedings, which offer 

 improved readings of their legends. The Society's share of these coins, 

 distributed under the Treasure Trove Act, was 89, the details of which 

 are given in the Annual Report. 



Another large quantity of coins, collected by Babu P. C. Mu- 

 kherji, on special duty with the Archasological Survey, and sent 

 by him to the Imperial Museum in Calcutta, has also been examined 

 and identified by Dr. Hoernle. It comprised 506 specimens which 

 belonged to 20 different classes. Among them were 2 Roman brass coins 

 (1 of Gallienus) ; 2 silver Byzantines ; 8 copper Bactrians ; 27 early and 

 11 later copper Indo-Scythians ; 12 silver Guptas ; 3 silver Surashtrians ; 

 3 silver punch-coins ; 1 copper Taudheya ; 126 old Hindu coins of a large 

 variety of types (including 32 Mitras and 72 so-called Buddhist Satraps) ; 

 7 silver Sassanians and 4 silver Indo-Sassanians ; 8 gold Rathors and 

 Chandels ; 2 copper Kashmir (Toramana) ; 5 copper early Rajputs (3 

 Bull and Horseman) ; 6 copper Pathans ; 1 copper Kangra ; 1 copper 

 square Malwa (Grhiyasu-d-din bin Mahmud), and 4 modern copper and 

 nickel (Turkish) coins. A more detailed report is being prepared by 

 Dr. Hoernle for publication in our Journal ; but I may note that there 

 are among them a few curious coins, e. g., 2 Bactrian coins of impure 

 silver with a quadriga and the legend LAEC A on the reverse ; a Hverki 

 copper coin of the NANA type, which appears to be an ancient forgery 

 of the corresponding gold coins, though the specimen shows no trace 



