158 Report of coins. [June, 



The President announced that Professor C. R. Lanman, of Harv- 

 ard College, Cambridge, U. S. A. had compounded for his subscription for 

 life as a Foreign Member, by the payment of Rupees 200 in a lump 

 sum. 



Mr. F. J. E. Spring exhibited some Burmese MSS. 



The Philological Secretary read the following report on a find 

 of six old coins forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of Rawal Pindi, 

 with his No. 498 G, dated 2nd March 1887. 



" These coins are stated to have been found in the Kahuta sub- 

 division of the Rawal Pindi district. Five of them are of copper, and 

 one of debased silver. 



" They were submitted by me to Mr. Rodgers of the Archaeolo- 

 gical Survey, in Lahore j and were by him identified as follows : — 



No. of Coins. 

 a, Of debased silver ; a forged rupee of Muhammad Shah 



Durrani of Herat 1 



h, Copper ; round pice of Aebar II, date 1225 A. H., 



Mint: Shah Jahanabad 1 



c, Copper ; round pice, probably of Muhammad Shah of 



Delhi; no date ; Mint: Etawa 1 



d, Copper ; round pice ; Sikh coinage in Persian, struck 



at Amritsar. Inscription on obverse is inverted as 



in type 1 



e, Copper ; irregular shaped pice ; Sikh coinage ; legends 



almost illegible 1 



/, Copper ; square pice ; commonly called ' Massiiri ' or 

 ' Mansuri ' pice all over the Pan jab ; in some bazaars 

 met with extensively, and current among certain 

 classes of the community. They never have any 

 name or figure on them. Sometimes they are 

 punched 1 



" They have been given to the Imperial Museum in Calcutta, by 

 order of the Government." 



The Philological Secretary intimated having been informed by Mr. 

 V. A. Smith, of Basti, that his General Index to Cunningham's Archae- 

 ological Reports was in the press and would shortly be published by the 

 Government of India as Vol. XXIV of the Series. 



