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tion of sovereignty, and I subjoin a sketch of it for publication in the 

 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. It is the property of 

 Pandit Rattan Narain, the fortunate owner of many rare or unique coins 

 of the Pathan and Mughal kings of Delhi. 



3. Coins struck in India by Ahmad Shah Durrani. — By Charles 



J. Rodgers. 

 (Abstract.) 

 The object of Mr. Rodgers's paper is to give a short account of the 

 coins which Ahmad Shah Abdalli or Durrani struck in India, and to 

 illustrate thereby the principal events of his reign. 



On arriving at Kandahar, after the assassination of Nadir Shah, 

 Ahmad Shah ordered coins to be struck bearing the following couplet : 



Immediately afterwards we find him on his way through Gazni to 

 Kabul which he reduced, and afterwards he obtained possession of 

 Peshawar and returned to Kandahar. After settling his affairs there, he 

 invaded India and seized Lahore. He was defeated at Sirhind, within 

 10 months of the murder of Nadir Shah, by the forces of Muhammad 

 Shah under his son Ahmad Shah. Mr. Rodgers's first rupee illustrates this 

 campaign, having been struck at Lahore in Ahmad Shah Durrani's first 

 year and bearing on the obverse the inscription — 



«*» 



jj*)} A — i^X — ^ jt«s y^>j~'° 



The reverse has the couplet given above which may be thus transla- 

 ted: 



Ahmad Shah received an order from the Peerless Powerful one : 



To strike coins in silver and gold from the height of the fish to the 



Moon. 



Mr. Rodgers possesses a coin of the 2nd year of Ahmad Shah, the 



inscription of which shews that it was struck at Peshawar. This was 



probably struck in a second invasion when he was persuaded by Meer 



