152 C. J. Rodgers — Letter on Coins. [June, 



The following gentleman has intimated his wish, to withdraw from 

 the Society : 



0. A. Hackett, Esq. 



The Peesident announced that the Council had, on the application 

 of the Finance Committee, sanctioned the sale of Government Promis- 

 sory notes of the nominal value of Rs. 3,000 out of the Oriental Publi- 

 cation Fund, to meet excess expenditure for the present year : as also 

 the re-grant of a sum of Rs. 1,000 for binding the principal periodicals, 

 which had been sanctioned some time back, but had lapsed. 



The Philological Secretary read the following extract from a 

 letter from Mr. C. J. Rodgers, of Amritsar, regarding coins collected 

 by him for Government in his tour during the past winter ; — 



" Perhaps you may be interested to hear that I have, during my tour 

 of the past winter, again made a collection of coins for Government. This 

 collection includes a fine square mohur of Shah Jahan's and a new type in 

 gold of Muhammad Taghlaq. In Sonepat I came across the leavings 

 of the great find of which General Cunningham bagged so many. (See 

 his analysis of the find in Num. Chron., Vol. XII, N. S., p. 159). 

 I obtained in Sonepat one hemidrachma of Agathokleia (her bust and 

 name on obverse) with Straton's name on reverse. One hemidrachma of 

 Heliokles, helmeted head of king, to left, with spear behind shoulders ; 

 two hemidrachma of ditto, bare head with fillet to right, 3 of ApoUo- 

 dotus square, 3 of Menander of different types ; one of Hermseus, hel- 

 meted king to right ; one of ditto and Kalliope : one of Antialkides. I 

 saw a poor one of Antimachus and a good one of Philoxenes. People 

 say they are constantly turning up in the rains in the ruins of Sonepat. 



" Besides these I obtained a new rupee of Muhammad Tughlaq, and 

 a new one of Ghiyasu-d-din Tu gh laq I. and Nasiru-d-din Bughra of 

 Bengal. 



" In Dehli I obtained remarkably good specimens of rupees of the 

 following Sultans of Bengal, Jalalu-d-din, Muhammad Shah, Daiid, 

 Bahadur Shah, and a fine one of Mubarizu-d-din Muhammad Shah Suri. 

 I also obtained there some fine rupees of Jahangir and Akbar. There 

 had been a find of the Bengali rupees. I saw a bag full also of the 

 rupees of the Pathan Sultans 'Alau-d-din Masa'iid Shah and Nasiru-d- 

 din Mahmud Shah. These, however, nearly all lacked dates. 



" In Panipat I came across an old Sanskrit coin with letters very 

 old on it (tT^^I^), over an image, with tree to left and a flower-pot to 

 right. 



" In Ludianah I secured a hemidrachma of Zoilus, In Firozpur I 

 obtained a copper coin of some Satrap, probably Rajnabala. 



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