66 Philological Secretary — Rejwrt on old coins. [April, 



They are all square copper coins of the Sultans of Malva. These 

 copper coins used to be very superficially struck; accordingly the 

 learends on most of them are worn out so much that neither name nor 

 date can be recognized, though sufficient remains to show unmistakably 

 the Malva type of coin. There are, however, a small number (less 

 than 100) on which sufficient traces of a name or date remain, to 

 attribute them more particularly, as shown below : — 



Qhiyas Shatt, 880-906 H. = 1475-1500 A. D., of two 



sizes, no date legible . . , 4 



Nasir Shah, 906-9J6 H. = 1500-1510 A. D., of two 



sizes, date 913 on one 8 



Mahmud Shah, 916-937 H. = 1510-1530 A. D., of 

 two sizes, dates 916, 9i7, 9J8, 919 (F), 922 on 15 

 specimens 72 



Total ... 84 



There are also two curious coins among the lot. They have the 

 usual Malva type, but they show the name Muhammad in full and 

 quite distinct. There is no Sultan of that name known among the 

 Khilji house of Malva. In the Ghorl house which preceded it, there 

 is a Muhammad Ghazni Khan, who reigned 838-839 H., but he is 

 not known to have struck any coins. Moreover the coins seem to 

 show traces of the dynastic name Khilji, and the mutilated date on one 

 of them does not fit Muhammad Ghazni Khan. Of this date the unit 

 figure 2 is quite distinct, it also shows a slightly mutilated decade figure, 

 wliich (from the remains of it) can only be either 6 or 9, probably 

 the former. The only date, that can be made up of these figures to 

 agree with the known period of the Malva Sultans, is 862 (or perhaps 

 892;. The year 862 would fall within the reign of Mahmiid I, while 

 892 would fall to Ghiyas Shah. The name, however, reads quite clear 

 *' Muhammad," not " Mahmud." 



(XIV) Report on 64 old gold coins, forwarded by the Deputy 

 Commissioner of the Jhang District, with his No. 423, dated 1st April, 

 1895. 



In a previous letter, No. 3i>, dated the 20th March, 1895, the coins 

 are stated to have been found in the Jhang District, but no f urther parti- 

 CTilars regarding the date and exact locality of the find are given. 

 Together with the coins, a number of gold and silver ornaments, cora- 

 piising thirteen sets, were sent. As to the finding of these" ornaments, 



