1896. ] J. Rodgers—Puthan Kings of Dehli. 219 
I have drawn one specimen of this coin before. This coin is ap- 
parently of good silver and is nicely shaped. It is described by Thomas 
in his footnote to pages 212 and 213 of his work. This specimen 
belongs to Mr. Ellis of the N. W. Railway, Lahore. 
I find I have finished describing the coins in the two plates. On 
looking over my notebook I see I have a lot of coins I might have 
given in a third plate. Had I secured all the coins of ‘Alau-d-din of 
Khwarizm that I have seen of late, I could have given two plates of 
his coins alone. I let them go, contrary to my usual custom. They 
will, I hope, be secured by some one else and in course of time edited. 
Just now should be a good time for collectors in India. The British 
Museum is no longer purchasing oriental coins. The Indian Govern- 
ment declines to assist Numismatics, and this means that funds will not 
be allotted te Indian Museums, which are Government institutions, for 
the purchase of coins. Consequently collectors have the market all to 
themselves. Unfortunately caravans from Kabul are few and far 
between. Amritsar merchants inform me that it pays them better to 
deal with Bukhara vid Batoum, rather than by Kabul. Hence the 
Kabuli traders who used to bring old coins with them to sell in Indian 
bazars are now seldom seen. But in India itself, new coins are always 
turning up, so that there is no fear that novelties will cease just yet. 
Of course that portion of the history of India covered by Mr. Thomas’s 
book is only a small one, not four hundred years, but it was a period 
that produced innumerable coins, and hence to the numismatist it will 
always bea time of great interest. It is a subject that has occupied my 
leisure hours for many years. My first supplement was published in 
1880, and of course for several years before that, I was engaged in the 
study of ‘The Chronicles.’ 
IT cannot part with this branch of Numismatics without noticing 
one point. Jt seems to have been imagined that I was antagonistic to 
Mr. Thomas in publishing these supplements. Never was an idea so 
groundless. Mr. Thomas honoured me with his friendship; and when 
i was at home, I had the pleasure of an interview with him in which 
he spoke very kindly of my work on the supplements, and especially 
praised the drawings of the coins. In my remarks on his book, I have 
always given to it its due praise. It is a book of which any one might 
be proud. There is not a coin wrongly assigned, and I know of only 
one mistake in the reading of a coin. It was the first book on the 
subject and was not exhaustive. I have written six supplements to it, 
and they are by no means exhaustive. This does not, however, in any 
way lessen my esteem for the book or for its learned and most amiable 
anther, 
