1888.] C. J. Rodgers — O71 Miscellaneous Coins. 3 



The following papers were read — 



1. Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. Heteroptera, No. 4. — By E. T. 

 Atkinson, Esq., C. S., President. 



2. Beliqucs Indices : being contributions to the Prehistoric ArchceO' 

 logy of India and adjoining Provinces, founded chiefly on objects in the 

 collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. No. 1, on some objects from a 

 Neolithic settlement recently discovered by Mr. W. H. P. Driver at Batichi 

 in the Chotd-Ndgpur district. — By J. Wood-Mason, Esq., Superintendent 

 Indian Museum and Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology in the 

 Medical College of Calcutta. 



These papers will be published in full in the Journal, Pfc. II. 



3. On Miscellaneous Coins. — By C. J. Rodgers, Esq., Archceological 

 Departmeni. (With a plate.) 



In years gone by whenever I came across a rare coin, obtained for 

 my own cabinet or for the cabinets of my friends, I made a point of 

 drawing it. After several years I find myself in possession of a small 

 collection of drawings. As most of these coins thus drawn are of the 

 greatest rarity, I have put the drawings of them on the accompanying 

 plate (Plate 1). I will give a short description of each with a tran- 

 scription of the'legends as far as^they are legible. 



No. 1. Rupee of Shah Shuja', son of Shah Jahan. 

 Obverse : — In square : f^"^^^"^ ^^^^ »^-^ 



Margins illegible : 



Reverse : — Kalimah and date | •Ia in square. 

 Margins, names of the four companions of Muhammad. 

 This rupee I obtained some years ago in Dehii. It is now in the 

 cabinet of Sir A. Cunningham. 



No. 2. Rupee of Murad Bakhsh, son of Shah Jahan. 

 Obverse : — in square : o*"^"^ '^Lr* ^"^ 



Margins : — (^^i\ ^j^^ \\ jSL^J\y] || j,a».| xi^ || ojIaa^^ ^j^ 

 Reverse : — Kalimah in square. 



Margins : — Names and titles of the four companions and 

 date J ♦ 1A 

 This rupee was obtained by me for Government this year. It 

 gives the huniyat of Murad Bakhsh, Murauioaju-d-Bin, not Tdjic-d-Bin as 

 given by Mr. Delmerick in this Journal for 1875, p. 127. This reading 

 of mine is supported by the Surat rupee given in Marsden, PI. XLII, 

 No. DCCCLXXXII. These rupees are very rare indeed now. 



