266 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. | December, 1905. 
No coins of Shah Shuja are recorded in the catalogues of the 
Calcutta and Lahore Museums. The British Museum Catalogue 
describes two coins (Nos. 690 and 691). The reading of the 
new coin differs from these in the case of the reverse. There 
is no trace of a square area, and in this respect the new coin 
resembles the early issues of Shah Jahan. The horizontal mark 
below the first line is probably part of the word 4, and the similar 
mark above the last line is possibly wx, the completion of the word 
St which commences in the last line. J cannot explain the letter 
read as _» which comes between ols and csjle in the first line. The 
reading of the last line suggests that the lower margin of the re- 
verse on both the coins described in the B.M. catalogue should 
read 8l& yoiSe. In Coin No. 690 it is read ob (} ) 45 (| ) which 
is historically improbable. The right margin of Coin No. 691 is 
read sl} wie. A comparison with Coin No. 690 shows that it 
should be gil wissale, The top margin of No. 691 seems to 
read yds} yO)... , which presents a difficulty. 
: R. Bury. 
45, ON THE IDENTITY OF THE CoINS OF GUJARAT FABRIC AND THE 
Strat Maumoptis. 
In this article I purpose submitting evidence which, in my 
opinion, goes to prove that the silver coins designated in the 
British Museum Catalogue comms of ‘Gujarat Fabric” are iden- 
tical with those known to early writers under the name of ‘“ Sarat 
Mahmidis.” 
I. From the testimony of European travellers in India in 
the seventeenth century, it is clear that in the first half of that 
century silver coins of two distinct types were current in and 
around the city of Surat. 
(a) Edward Terry, “Chaplain to the Right Hon. Sir 
Thomas Row, Knt.,” landed from the good ship 
“Charles” at the port of Strat on the 25th of 
September, 1616 (A.H. 1025). In his “ Voyage to 
East India,” first published in 1655, he thus 
writes :— 
“They call thei pieces of money roopes, of which 
“there are some of divers values, the meanest 
“worth two shillings and three-pence, and the 
“best two shillings and nine-pence sterling. By 
“these they account their estates and payments. 
“They have another coin of inferior value in 
“ Guzarat, called Mamoodies, about twelve-pence 
“ sterling; both the former and these are made in 
“halves, and and some few in quarters ; so -that 
“‘three-pence is the least piece of silver current in 
“those countries, and very few of them to be seen. 
