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No. 8. Fath. Shah. Obverse. Name and titles with bar and knot. 

 Reverse. Struck in Kashmir in year 897. There is some doubt as to the 

 reading of tbe 7. 



No. 9. Ibrahim Shah. Obverse. Name and titles, with bar and 

 knot. Reverse. All illegible, but date &c. 



No. 10. Isma'il Shah. Obverse. Name and titles, with bar and 

 knot all in good preservation. Reverse. . A complete muddle of remains of 

 date illegible : remnants of Kashmir legible. 



No. 11. Husain Shah. Obverse. Name and titles, with bar and 

 knot and probably remains of date. Reverse. Zarb Nuhsad 10a haft wa 

 haftdcl = 977 A. H. This coin is in splendid preservation. 



No. 12, Muhammad Yusuf Shah. Obverse. Name, titles, bar and 

 knot as usual, but titles illegible. Reverse. JVuhsad 10a shash wa hash- 

 tad = 986. This coin is very little worn, but it was struck on an irregular 

 and ill-prepared piece of copper. 



I regret very much that the years of the coins are so unsatisfactory 

 in so many instances. The names, however, afford no ground for dispute. 

 They are all easily read, though in some cases at first sight they are not 

 decipherable. I found I had several of Isma'iFs coins when I could read 

 one. One's power of reading progresses as one's acquaintance with the 

 coins increases. I have still several wbich up to the present I have not 

 made out satisfactorily. Tbese together with the coins of Nadir Shah, a 

 coin of Nazuk Shah (so I read it, I want others to help me read this one) 

 and the coins of Akbar struck in Kashmir with the bar and the knot must 

 stand over for another paper. 



Observations on some Chandel Antiquities. — By V. A. Smith, b. a., c. s., 

 and F. C. Black, c. e. 



(With six Plates.) 



The careful and accurate descriptions of the Chandel remains at Kka- 

 juraho and Mahoba, published by General Cunningham, might be supposed 

 to have exhausted the subject of which he treats, and to leave no gleanings 

 to be picked up by amateur hands. We have, however, in the course of 

 several years' residence in the Hamirpur District, in which Mahoba is situa- 

 ted, and after careful inspection of the buildings at Khajuraho, collected a 

 few notes, which may, we venture to think, form a useful supplement to the 

 more systematic record of the Director of the Archaeological Survey. 



