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At present only one copy of each of the last three works is 

 available. All three are in the possession of the Society. A search 

 is being made for other MSS., after receipt of which the editions will be 

 taken in hand. 



The Secretary reported that the following coins had been acquired 

 under the Treasure Trove Act : 



5 gold coins found at Chindwarrah, Nerbudda District, Central 

 Provinces ; 



5 silver coins found at Fatehgarh in the Furrukhabad District, 

 N. W. P. 



With reference to the 5 gold coins Dr. Hoernle observed that one 

 of the coins, specimen No. 1, was of the reign of Alamgir II, Aziz-ud-din, 

 that it bore no date and was minted at Shahjehanabad. Two others 

 were of the reign of Aurangzib, dates 1106 and 1110, and bore the 

 names of the mints of Bijapur Dar-uz-Zafar and Khujastah Bunyad or 

 Aurangabad. The fourth coin was of the reign of Muhammad Shah of 

 the year 1144 and bore the mint mark of Akbarabad. This is like the 

 coin of Muhammad Furrukh-sir, in Marsden's Num. Orient, p. 662, No. 

 DCCCCXII. The fifth was also a coin of Muhammad Shah, of the 

 year 11 [43], and had the mint mark of Shahjehanabad. All these are 

 apparently new or unpublished types except the last, which is described 

 in Marsden's Numismata Orientalia, p. 667, No. DCCCCXXI. 



The Philological Secretary exhibited 15 silver coins of the In- 

 dependent Muhammadan Rulers of Bengal in the 16th Century, for- 

 warded by Mr. L. J. K. Brace, Curator of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Sibpur, and said that the collection contained the following 

 coins : 



1. One of Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah (808-817 A. H.), of the 

 kind described in J. A. S. B., Vol. XLII, p. 263, No. 2. Date illegible. 



2. Two of Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah (817-834 A. H.), of the 

 kind described ibid., p. 267, No. 1. Dates 823, and 821 ; but the latter 

 is uncertain. 



3. Three of Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah I, (846-864 A. H.), of the 

 kind described in J. A. S. B., Vol. LII, p. 218, No. 3. Dates 863 and 

 86 [0] ; the latter uncertain. 



4. Four of Ruknuddin Barbak Shah (864-879 A. H.), Muzaffar 

 type, of the kind described ibid. ; p. 219, No. 13. Three bear date 

 867 ; on one it is illegible. 



5. One of the same, Mujahid type, of the kind described ibid., 

 p. 219, No. 12 ; date quite distinctly 864. This shows that the date of 

 the previously described specimens should also be read 864 ; and it 



