228 Philological Secretary — Reports on coins. [Nov. 



The coins belong to the following Mughal Emperors of Delhi : 

 I. Muhammad Sh£h, A. H. 1131— 1161 = A. D. 1719— 

 1748. 



(a) two gold mohurs, Type Sahib Qirdn mint 



Daru-1-Khilafat Shahjahanabad. 2 



(b) three Rupees, type Bddshdh Ghdzi, mint 



Arcot and Siirat ; dates illegible. 3 



II. Ahmad Shah Bahadur, A. H. 1161 — 1167=A. D. 

 ' 1748— 54 

 two Rupees, mint Arcot, date illegible. 2 



III. 'A'lamgir Zani, A. H. 1167— 11 73 = A. D. 1754— 



1759. 



74 Rupees of two varieties, mint Arcot, date ille- 

 gible. 74 



IV. Shah 'Alam, A. H. 1173— 1221 = A. D. 1759—1806. 



(a) South-Indian variety, mint Arcot ; legible ") 



dates 1205, 1198, 1183, 1206, 1199. £ 29 



(b) North- Indian variety, mint Murshidabad. ) 



(c) Three eight-anna and one four-anna pieces ; 



mint Murshidabad. 4 



Total ... 114 



4. Report on 17 old silver coins forwarded by the Collector of 

 Murshidabad with his No. 854-G, dated July 30th 1889. 



The coins consist of 7 eight-anna and 10 four-anna pieces of the 

 emperor Shah 'Alam, but of British mintage, all except one bearing the 

 mint name Murshidabad and the date 19 of Shah 'Alam's reign, though 

 they were really struck in Calcutta. The one exception is a four-anna 

 piece bearing the mint name Farrukhabad and the year 40 of Shah 

 'Alam's reign, but also struck at Calcutta. Though not very old, small 

 coins of this description are not often found, and therefore possess some 

 numismatic value. 



5. Report on 175 old silver coins, forwarded by the Assistant Com- 

 missioner of Ajmere with his No. 427, dated 18th April 1889 and No. 

 644 of the 22nd June, 1889. 



The coins are said to have been discovered in Marwara without any 

 further specification of the find place. 



They belong to the so-called class of Indo-Sassanian coins, that is, 

 coins struck in India in more or less crude imitation of the Persian coins 

 of the Sassanide dynasty which reigned from A. D. 226-652. Coins of 



