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2. On some coins from Candahar. — By Charles J. Rodgers. (Vide Plate I). 

 The coins drawn in the accompanying plate were obtained by me 

 some time ago from Kandahar. The find consisted chiefly of the coins of 

 five kings. In silver there were over twenty coins of Mangu Khan and 

 several coins of Ismael Sufi, the founder of the Sufi dynasty of Persia. 

 (These I have not drawn as they were very fine indeed and exceedingly 

 intricate) . In mixed metal there was a great quantity of the coins of a 

 king but little known to History, Tdj-ud-Din Muhammad Hardufi or 

 Harufi or Khardufi, several of one equally little known, Harb, and one 

 coin of Taj-ud-Din Nasr bin Bahrdm Shah. As several of the coins of 

 Mangu Khan bore the mints of Nimroz and Herat and Gazni, and as 

 several of those of Ismael bore the same mints Nimroz and Herat, I had 

 no hesitation, as the coins came from Kandahar, in assigning them to 

 kings who at some time or other ruled in South and Western Afghanis- 

 tan. Of Mangu Khan there are several coins in the British Museum. 

 Those in the Catalogue (Yol. VI, pp. 6, 7,) are, of silver four in number 

 and one of copper. The only mint given is Tiflis. Last year I ob- 

 tained one in Lahore struck (*J &* X&h ^) in the town of Gazni. This 

 I sent to the British Museum. Hence I regard the present find as one 

 of some importance especially as the coins reveal an altogether new mint, 

 that of Nimroz. (It isjjj+i* on the coins of Ismael and j)j# on those of 

 Mangu. Khan) . The value of the find is still more enhanced when we 

 consider that the British Museum possesses but eight coins of the great 

 Qaans of Chinese Tartary (this number is increased now by two coins of 

 Changez Khan which I gave to the British Museum) and that they have 

 no coins of Nimroz and none of Taj-ud-Din or Harf or Nasr bin Bahram 

 Shah. I was unable to say anything of these last three kings until my 

 friend and fellow numismatist, L. White King, Esq., C. S. of Edwardsa- 

 bad, wrote me that he had found them mentioned in the Tarikh i Jadwalia 

 of Khadim Ali of Lucknow (Munshi Nawwab Kishore's Press, 1876). 

 This history is nothing more than a collection of Tables of Kings, &c, 

 obtained from 41 histories, the names of which the author gives in his 

 short preface of two pages. The work is a good volume of 578 pages, 

 but he only devotes two pages to the kings of Sistan or Nimroz. They 

 are given as follows without date : — 



(1.) Taj-ud-Din Abul Fazl, son of Tahir. 



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 (2.) Shams-ud-Din Muhammad. 



(3.) Taj-ud-Din Harb, son of Azzul Mulk. 



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 (4.) Bahram Shah, Yamin-ud-Din. 



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(5.) Nasras-ud-Din (6.) Rukn ud Din. 

 (7.) Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad, son of Taj-ud-Din Harb. 

 (8.) Taj-ud-Din. 



