1883.] Mr. Gibbs— 0;i two Enormous Gold Coins. 3 



The Council also proposed the following gentleman for election as an 

 Associate Member at the next meeting ; 



C. J. Rodgers, Principal, Normal College, Amritsar, on account of his 

 numerous and valuable contributions to the numismatology of India. 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members : 



1. Major Trevor Plowden, B. S. C, Simla. 



2. Chas. H. Harding, Esq., C. S., Tajpore. 



The following gentleman is a candidate for ballot at the next meeting : 



L. J. K. Brace, Esq., Curator of the Herbarium, Botanical Gardens, 

 proposed by Dr. G. King, seconded by Dr. J. Scully. 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw from 

 the Society : 



R W. Nicholson, Esq. 



Major Genl. G. E. Evezard. 



The Chairman announced that Mr. P. C. Wheeler had written a letter 

 of explanation and apology which the Council had accepted, and that, 

 inferring that Mr. Wheeler was now willing to pay the full sum due, the 

 Council had decided to desist from any further proceeding in the matter 

 until he had had an opportunity of paying : in the event of his doing so, 

 he will be allowed to withdraw from the Society in the usual way. 



The Hon'ble J. Gibbs, in exhibiting a drawing and an estampage of 

 two enormous gold coins, said : — ■ 



The former represents a 200 gold mohur piece of Shah Jehan, the latter 

 a 100 gold mohur piece of Aurangzib. The earliest reference to such pieces 

 will be found in Ta vernier's Travels in India, pp. 106-7, where he gives the 

 drawing of one, but different from and smaller than these : he says they 

 were coined and thrown among the people at the coronation, and were 

 mostly of silver, that there were very few gold, but he adds that Aurangzib 

 did not coin any such pieces for his coronation. 



Marsden also alludes to them at page 466 where he describes a large 

 silver medal of Husein of Persia, A. H. 1J21, which is engraved in plate 30: 

 also at page 641, where he clearly alludes to a coin similar to the larger of 

 these two, that coined by Shah Jehan, and at page 651 he alludes to a silver 

 medal of Aurangzib in the collection of the Duke of Saxe Gotha, giving 

 its diameter at 4*4 in., which is about the size of the Aurangzib gold 

 coin, while the Shah Jehan is said to be 5 inches, which coincides with 

 the drawing. See also Thomas in a note to his " Pathan Kings of Delhi," 

 page 423, where such a coin is said to have weighed 70 oz. Also Richard- 



