1876.] 



Gold Coin of Ndgir-uddin Mahmud SMJi. 



91 



There is also a modern Persian silver piece among Dr. Scully's coins, 

 which bears the legend — 



Sultan N'a9ir--uddiii Shah, the Kajar. 



Struck at Mashhad, the holy, A, H. 127*. 



(2.) From the Rey. M. Carleton, American Mission, Karnal, for exhibi- 

 tion, a unique gold coin o£ Na9ir-uddin Mahmiid Shah (A. H. 614 to 664 ; 

 A. D. 1246 to 1265). 



Mr. BLOCHMAJsnsr said — Mr. Thomas has remarked that the earlier kings 

 of Dihli do not seem to haye issued many gold coins ; but no gold coin 

 struck by Mahmud Shah appears to exist in the best coin cabinets. 



Mr. Carleton's coin has the same legend as the silver Mahmud Shahi 

 in Thomas's chronicles, pi. II, 39, and p. 129. 



The weight is 168'45 grains. Both obverse and reverse have the same 

 legend. 



Margi:n^ (on both faces) — ^'^ *.w. ^i ,_^l*j o;.«3.s-l &^-^}\ jjJ.A i_j^ 



The great Sultan Na^ir uddunya waddin Abul Muzaffar IMahmud, the son of the 

 Sultan, 



In the time of the Imam Al-Musta'(,'im, the Commander of the Faithful, 

 This coin {sikkah) was struck in the cajsital, Dihli, in 657 A.H. 

 (3) The Society has also bought of Babu Omesh Chunder Banerjea, 

 Godda, a gold coin, struck by Muhammad-bin-Tughluq in the name of the 

 Egyptian Khalif Al-Mustakfi Billah, Dihli, 743, A. H. The coin weighs 

 168"05 grains. 



The coin has been described by Mr. Thomas in Chronicles, p. 259. * 

 Another specimen of the same year is in the cabinet of General Cunning- 

 ham. 



* Where the word ^J is left out before ^JUb^^^ 



