1867.] Tlie Initial Coinage of Bengal. 51 



No. 8. 

 Second Mint, Grhiaspur. Date, 730. 

 Silver. Size, vii. Weight, 166 and 164.5 grs. Very rare. Two 

 coins. Col. Guthrie. Plate I., fig. 5. 



Margin, # &•£$& ***» jt^^F A ^> &£-J|<S>a * 

 iv. Bahadur Shah, 

 as Vassal under Muhammad bin Tughlak. 

 No. 9. 

 Sonargaon, a.h. 728. 

 Silver. Weight, 140 grs. Unique. Dehli Archceological Society. 

 Obverse, * l « j^tf jStiaJl j*\ ^j^I j IaJ^I &Ui *&*+}\ lytlaJL— i| 



Eeverse, Area, »Lw <jl*J lH e+x* diJU jj.iiyi^/ob v ^ 



Margin, *^**-^j i&j*^ J c*^ Ax^^j^^U^ j^*^ a£-Ji j$jjfc 



Muhammad 5m Tuglilalc Shah, Emperor of Hindustan, 



(in his own name) after the re-conquest of Bengal. 



No. 10. 



Laldmauti, a.h. 733. 



Silver. Small coins. Size, v. to v4> Weight of well-preserved 



coins, 168.5 grs. Five specimens, Col. Guthrie. Plate I., fig. 6. 



Obv. Kev. 





9 A Al K^l 





«— UiHi di 3/ 



& * X* 



4__1J| J^j 



Eeverse, Margin, 



If the place of mintage of these imperial coins had been illegible, 

 I should almost have been prepared, on the strength of the pecu- 

 liarity of the forms of the letters, to have assigned their execution 

 to a Bengal artist. The original model for the type of coinage may 

 be seen in fig. 90, page 54, Pathan Sultans. The late Mr. Gr. Free- 

 ling, of the Bengal C.S., has left on record his acquisition of a gold 

 piece of the same design (from the Dehli Mint) dated a.h. 725. 



