180 Philological Secretary — Reports on Coins. [Aug. 



Report on 72 coins forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of 

 Rohtak, with his No. 463, dated 23rd April 1888. 



1. The coins are stated to have been found in a field of the village 

 of Ghilour in the Gohana Tahsil. They are 72 in number. 



2. They all belong to the reign of the emperor Shah 'Alam, who 

 reigned from A. H. 1173—1221 = A. D. 1759—1806. They are all 

 dated in the regnal year only, viz., in the 40th year, which would be 

 A. H. 1213 or A. D. 1798 ; and all were minted in Farrukhabad, appar- 

 ently, to judge from the fashion of the coins, under English orders. 

 They are of two kinds, 39 have a broad raised margin, with a smooth 

 edge ; and 43 have a hardly distinguishable margin, with a milled (or 

 serrated) edge. 



Report on 137 old coins, forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of 

 Sialkot, with his No. 1045, dated the 19th June, 1888. 



1. These coins were found in two sets of 57 and 80 pieces respec- 

 tively. The first set of 57 pieces is stated to have been found in the 

 wall of a house in the Mauza Adowar of the Tahsil Daska, and are de- 

 scribed to be of an admixture of copper and silver. The second set of 

 80 coins is stated to have been found in a field, but the locality is not 

 further specified, though perhaps the same Mauza and Tahsil are in- 

 tended. The two sets are stated to have been found as long ago as the 

 1st November, 1886 and 26th June, 1885 respectively. 



2. The first set of coins belongs to a class of which numerous 

 varieties have been found at various times. It is commonly known as 

 * Indo-Scythian,' and several varieties of it have been described, especi- 

 ally by the late Mr. E. Thomas, in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XII, p. 6^ 

 Of the particular variety to which the coins under report belong the 

 first specimen appears to have been found, along with a number of other 

 coins of different classes, in the relic casket of the celebrated tope of 

 Manikyala, when it was opened by General Ventura in 1830, (as de_ 

 scribed in the Ilird volume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Ben. 

 gal). James Prinsep, who examined the find at that time, failed to 

 identify that specimen ; but it was identified by General Sir A. Cunning- 

 ham, in 1854, from two duplicates in his possession, as belonging to king 

 Yasovarman of Kanauj (see Journal As. Soc. Beng.^ Vol. XXIII, p. 700), 

 who must have reigned early in the 8th century A. D. This identi- 

 fication, so far as the name is concerned, is confirmed by the coins 

 under report, among which there are two good specimens, giving every 

 letter of the name in perfect condition. The age of these coins 

 it was thought, could be determined from the fact, that among the 

 coins found together with the Manikyala specimen, there was a so- 

 called ' Sassanian coin,' one of 'Abdullah bin Hazim, Governor of 



