DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 85 



A series of 51 silver and copper coins of mediseval Persia, 

 including the first known coin of Hasan b. Zaid, an Alid rebel 

 who founded a dynasty in Tabaristan, struck at Amul 254 A.H. 

 Presented by Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, K.C.I.E., C.M.G. 



A rare gold late Kusban coin with the name Lohavatya. Pre- 

 sented by Colonel J. Biddulph. 



A very fine specimen of the horse-sacrifice type of Samudra- 

 gupta from the General Clerk Collection, and a specimen of his 

 Candragupta I. type from the Hoey Collection. 



A gold coin of Candragupta II. of the Lion-slayer type, a 

 new variety of B.M.C. no. 113, having the King to left, and 

 the specimen of his Chattra type of Candragupta II. illustrated 

 in B.M.C. PI. VIII. 4. 



The unique gold coin of Puragupta from the Hoey Collection 

 (B.M.C. PL XXI. 23). 



Four gold tankas of Muhammad II. of Dehli, Dar al-Islam, 

 704 A.H., Dehli, 697, 698 and 713 A.H. 



A rare gold tanka of Muhammad III. of Dehli (744 A.H. 

 type of B.M.C. 328) and another, an unpublished variety of 

 B.M.C. 334. 



A fine collection of Moghul coins in gold and silver and 

 copper, including gold muhrs of Akbar, Patna 987; Lahore 47; 

 Jaunpur 980 ; gold muhrs of Jahangir, Lahore, 1016; Agra, 

 1021 ; gold muhrs of Shah Jahan, Agra 1038 and 1044 ; Surat 

 year 5 (Isfandarmuz) and 1044 ; Lahore 1050 ; Delhi 1047 and 

 1084; Daulatabad 1048; gold muhrs of Aurangzib, Jahangir- 

 nagar 1114; 47 ; MMtan 1074 ; 7 ; Shahjahanabad llOl ; 3 and 

 1102 ; 36 ; Hyderabad 1112 ; 45 ; a gold muhr of Jahandar, 

 Murshidabad 1124; 1; a gold muhr of Ahmad, Multan 1164; 4; 

 a gold muhr of Shah Jahan III., Indore, 1174 ; 1 ; from the 

 collections of the late Sir Thomas Dennehy, the late Sir Denzil 

 Ibbetson and the late Mr. J. Doyle Smith. 



A specimen of the rare gold coinage of the Sikh Ranjit Singh, 

 dated Samvat 1868. 



Forty-one coins of the Turks struck in Egypt. Presented by 

 Hen/ry Gar side, Esq. 



Gold coins of Nadir Shah of Persia, struck at Meshhed and 

 Peshawar 1055 A.H. 



Four gold coins of Karim Khan of Persia, of Tabriz 1179 and 

 1184, Kazwin 1186 and Shiraz, llS4 A.H. and one of Fath 

 Ali-Shah, Erivan, 1185 A.H. 



Five gold coins of Nasir al-Din Shah of Persia of the ;nints 

 Tabriz, 1269, Teheran, 1271 {\ and i tuman), 1272 A.H. Pre- 

 sented by His Majesty the King. 



Three gold coins of IS'asir al-Din Shah of Persia of Tabriz 

 1280, Kazwin 1270 and 1271 A.H. 



Two gold! Nepalese coins', of Girvana Tuddha and one of 

 Queen Siddhi Laksmi Devi (1756). Presented by His Majesty 

 the King. 



A gold muhr of Surendra Vikrama of Nepal (1791), quarter 

 muhr of Queen Samrajya Laksmi (1746) and a half muhr of 

 Rana Bahadur. 



