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Margin. He from the hand of whose generosity the clouds receive 

 water. The world- conquering king, the sea of gene- 

 rosity, Aurangzib. The face of gold becomes resplen- 

 dent like the faces of the moon and sun, from the 

 light of his coin in the vast plain of Hindustan. 



Reverse. 



Square centre. Struck in the auspicious year of accession 15, in the 

 home of the Kalifat Shah — Jehanabad. 



Margin. The emperor Aurangzib, conqueror of the world as pow- 

 erful as Heaven, as wise as fate. The face of gold 

 from the light of his coin became resplendent like tho 

 shining sun. 



The Philological Secretary exhibited ten coins forwarded by Mr, 

 Rivett-Carnac, and read the following extract from his letter accom- 

 panying the coins : 



" I send for the inspection of the Society some coins obtained from 

 the Panjab which appear to me to be of rare, if not unknown, types. 

 Ten coins (among them) are thick and lumpy. The metal would seem 

 to be a mixture of copper and silver. On one side representations of 

 a figure — very rough — on the other a Bull or Elephant. Traces of letters 

 are to be found on both sides." 



Dr. Hoernle remarked that he did not recognize the coins, nor had 

 he been able to make anything of the so-called letters on them. But 

 what had struck him was a curious resemblance between these coins 

 and the square piece of silver which had been sent some time ago by 

 Col. Clerk and exhibited at a previous meeting of the Society (see Proc. 

 for August 1884, page 128) . That piece had met with general suspi- 

 cion as to its being a genuine coin ; and it was probable that the pieces 

 of metal now before them were of the same character. In connection 

 with this subject, Dr. Hoernle added, he might mention to the meeting, 

 that he had seen a letter from Col. Clerk, dated 9th February last, in 

 which he communicated to the Society, that the le-tters on the oblong 

 piece of silver, which had been recognized by Mr. Beames and Col. 

 Prideaux to be some form of Semitic (see Proc. for January 1885 

 pp. 2 and 3) were declared by Mr. Thompson of the British Museum 

 to be Sclavonic. He read them as follows, commencing at the further 

 end from the ram's head : th, n, the sign sofr, I, kh. 



The Hon. Mr. Gibbs remarked about the coins now exhibited that he 

 suspected they were spurious, and had been manufactured by persons 

 at Rawal Pindi, who, as he had mentioned on a former occasion, made 

 it a business to manufacture spurious relics and antiquities. 



