68 The Initial Coinage of Bengal. [No. 1. 



Ghias-ud-din Aazam Shall, bin Silcandar Shah. 

 No. 32. 

 Muazamabad, a. h. 772, 775, 776. 

 Silver. Size, viii|-. Weight, 166 grs. Plate II. fig. 16. 

 Type No. 1. Obverse, square area occupying nearly the whole 

 surface of the coin, as in the old Dehli pattern. 



Reverse, scalloped lozenge, forming an eight-pointed but contracted 

 star. 



Obv. Eev. 







Obverse Margin : On the upper edge, ^^j-?l ; on the left, j-*^ ; in 

 consecutive reading at the foot, uLIp ; and on the right, ^^ 



Reverse Margin, 

 AjU*a*» j (j'J;*-^ j ii»^*J **■*« bkljcuuo j(<ilj ^i &?;U*.J| <Xx«J| gAA 



Variety A. In one instance J&*. cj^s 1 ! supplies the place of 



There is a doubt about the reading of the word ^^ " being humble ;" 

 the ^j-j^ " Oculus" of Marsden would certainly be preferable in point 

 of sense, but the forms of the letters of the word scarcely justify such a 

 rendering, unless we admit of an unusual degree of even Bengali im- 

 perfection in the fashioning these dies. 



On two examples of this mintage in silver, the marginal legend bears 

 the words jUj^I j$i,A in clearly cut letters ; but I imagine this seem- 

 ing anomaly to have arisen from a fortuitous use of the dies for gold 

 coins, which, in device, were identical with those employed for the 

 silver money. 



No. 33. 



Jannatabad, A. h. 790. 



Variety A. Similar obverse with circular reverse. 

 Mint. j urJ** 8 -* ^• ws &U l*i&. 



