DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. 07 



Five dirhems of the Umayyad Caliphate struck at Abu Shahr 

 (92 A.H._), Damascus (80 a.h.), and Wasit (96, 105, 123 a.h.) ; 

 and 7 dirhems of the 'Abbasid Caliphate struck by al-Mahdl 

 at Sijistan (163 a.h.), and Madinat al-Saliim (167 a.h.), 

 and al-Rashid at Balkh (183 a.h.), Basrah (182 a.h.), 

 Muhammadiyah (191 A.H.), Sijistan (174 A.H.), and Zaranj 

 (192 A.H.) Presented by Sir A. Henry Macmahon, K.C.I. E. 



Four dirhems of the Samanid Nasr II. b. Ahmad struck at 

 Enderabeh (301 a.h.), NlsapUir (309,' 321 A.H.j, and al-Shash 

 {314 A.H.) Presented by Colonel L. Worthington-Wihner. 



A dirhem of the Tahirid Talha b. Tahir struck at Zaranj 

 (209 A.H.) ; a dinar of Khalaf b. Ahmad of Sijistan, and silver 

 and copper coins of Ahmad b. Muhammad of Sijistan ; copper 

 coins of the Samanids Mansur I. and Nuh II. ; a fine series 

 of copper coins of the kings of Nimraz. Kutb al-Din, Taj 

 al-Din, Ka'an al-'Adil and 'Izz al-Din, who were hitherto 

 ■quite unrepresented in the Museum ; a dinar of 'Ala al-Din 

 Khwarizmshah, and 4 dirhems of Tamerlane. 



Presented by Sir A. Henry Macmahon, K.C.I.E. 



Two copper coins of Kutlagh Khwaja, a Chaghatai invader 

 -of India. Presented by Colonel H. E. Deane. 



A silver coin of the Ak-Kuyunli Yakub Beg struck at 

 ■Sari. Presented by H. L. Rabino, Esq. 



Five silver coins of the Shahs of Persia, Isma'Tl I. struck at 

 NTmruz, Tahmasp I. at Herat, Husain Shah at Tabriz 

 (1137 A.H.), Sulaiman I. at Huwaiza (1086 A.H.), and 

 Muhammad Shah at Yazd. 



Presented by Sir A. Henry Macmahon, K.C.I.E. 



Fourteen silver coins of Ismail I. of Persia of the mints 

 Karijan, Lahijan, Lestenshah, and Timejan, and silver coins of 

 Tahmasp I. and Karim Khan. ' 



Presented by H. L. Rabino, Esq. 



A gold tuman of Fath 'Ali Shah of Persia struck at 

 Kermanshahan (1239 A.H.), and another of Muhammad Shah 

 •of Teheran (1260 A.H.). 



A rupee of Nadir Shah of Persia struck at Sind during his 

 invasion of India. 



Presented by the Bombay Branch of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society. 



Six Afghan rupees of Shah Shuja' struck at Peshawar (year 1) 

 and Kabul (1295 a.h.), Mahmud, Peshawar (year 8), 'Ayyub 

 Shah, Peshawar (year 6), and 'Abd al-Rahman, Kabul (1304 A.H.), 

 and Herat (1297 A.H.). Presented by Lady Gatacre. 



A very fine collection of 13 gold, 262 silver, and 238 copper 

 coins of the Durrani and Barakzai dynasties of Afghanistan, 

 the Sikhs and the modern Dogra kingdom of Kashmir, 

 including many rare and unpublished pieces, among which 

 may be mentioned a gold mohur of Ahmadnagar and rupees of 

 Dera, Bareli, Muradabad and Sahrind of Ahmad Shah, a mohur 

 of Timurof Lahore, rupees of the Afghan pretenders, Afzal 

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