1898.] Philological Secretary — Report on coins. 165 



1389-1396) : as in Brit. Mas. Cat., No. 60. Mint and 

 Date obliterated ... ... ... ... 2 



Posthumous coin, struck in the name of A'zam Shah : 

 as in Proceedings, Asiatic Society o£ Bengal, 1874, p. 

 156 ff, and Journal, A. S. B., Vol. XLIII, Part 1, 1874, 

 p. 294; date 8131, 81.1 ... ... ... 2 



Shihabu-d-din Bayazid (A.H. 812-817 = A. D. 1409- 

 1414) : 



(1) as in Brit. Mus. Cat., No. 67; Mint and Date 



obliterated ... ... ... 2 



(2) as in Brit. Mus. Cat., No. 68 ; margin of Obv. 



reads : 



Mint : Firozabad, date 816 ... ... 3 



(3) as in Brit. Mus. Cat., No. 71 ; margin of Ohy. 



same as above; Mint: Firozabad 817*, on 

 one coin obliterated ... ... 5 



Jalalu-d-dIn Muhammad (A.H. 817-834 = A.D. 1414- 

 1430) : as in Brit. Mus. Cat., No. 72. Mint : Firozabad 

 on one coin, date 819 on one coin, on others illegible ... 4 



Total ... 20 



VII. Report on 615 old Silver Coins, forwarded by the Offg. 

 Deputy Commissioner of Bhandharia with his No. 616, dated 15th 

 February, 1898. 



The coins are stated to have been found buried in the village of 

 Jam in the District of Bhandaria. They were described as " Nagpuri 

 Rupees," but really they are Rupees of the Mu gh al Emperors Muhammad 

 Shah and Ahmad Shah : 



Of Muhammad Shah (A.H. 1131-1161 = A.D. 1719-1748) there 

 are 50 Rupees, all from the Surat Mint, 46 bearing the date : regnal 

 year 28. 



Of Ahmad Shah (AH. 1161-1167= A.D. 1748-1754) there are 

 565 Rupees, all from the Katak ( Cuttack) Mint ; most of them have 

 the regnal year 5, to which, however, on a good many specimens the 

 figures 7 or 12 or some other units are added (see also coin No. 9123 in 

 Catalogue of Indian Museum, Part II, p. 71). I am unable to account 

 for this curious irregularity. 



