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The Initial Coinage of Bengal, 



[No. 1, 



No. 37. 

 Satgaon, a. h. 790, 795, 796. 

 Type No. 4. Obverse, area, a square, with a looped semicircle at 

 each of the sides, forming a kind of amalgamation of the margin with 

 the central device. 



Reverse, area, a four-pointed star-shaped lozenge ; the outside spaces 

 being filled in with the marginal legend. 

 Obv. 



Rev. 



jyUaJLJf 8 U 



u 





tr 



-^ 



Reverse Margin, 



No. 38. 

 Type No. 5. Size, v. Weight, 166 grains 

 Obverse, lettered surface. 

 Reverse, circular area ; narrow margin. 

 Obv. Rev. 



&X«J| jsA 



«JLff «w| 



Margin? • •^l ***•» aljUJax* 



The singular orthography adopted in the rendering of the term 

 Abdallah, and the substitution of an initial I alif in lieu of the gram- 

 matical a ain, affords another instance of the ignorance of the local 

 mint officials, and their tendency to reproduce the approximate sounds 

 of words, without regard to the true powers of the letters employed. 



A vacant space in the final setting up of this article invites me to 

 extend it so far as to notice a limited series of coins which have hitherto 



