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Ghyasuddin A'zam Sh&h bin gikandar, lozenge obverse, 1367 to 1373. 



Ditto ditto, square ditto. 



Ditto ditto, field on the obverse square having scalloped projections 

 from the middle of each side, the reverse a rose of 4 petals. 



Ditto ditto, square obverse, lotus reverse. 



Ditto ditto, circular obverse and reverse. 



Shamsuddin Tiriiz Shah, A. D. 1491. 



Babu Bajendralala Mitra also exhibited a set of the Zodiacal 

 rupees of Jehangir (except Scorpio and Aquarius) and a bacchanalian 

 medal of that Emperor belonging to the collection of Colonel Guthrie. 

 The rupees bear the Agra mint mark, and the same legend throughout, 

 but their dates differ, Leo, Taurus, Gemini and Virgo being of 1028 H, 

 Aries of 1030 H, Libra, Sagittarius, Capricornus and Pisces of 1031, 

 and Cancer of 1033 H. Their excellent state of preservation and 

 the fact of the figures of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Libra, and Sagit- 

 tarius, being unlike those to be met with on genuine Zodiacal rupees, 

 but very similar to those of the Zodiacal Mohurs, suggest the idea of 

 the rupees being forgeries, probably of the batch which is said to have 

 been coined by General Claude Martin of Lucknow. 



The medal was described as new, having an effigy of the Emperor 

 seated in the centre and holding a decanter of wine in one hand and a 

 cup lifted to his mouth in the other, with a legend round the margin. 

 The reverse has on the field the figure of a lion passant with the sun 

 rising behind it, and a legend on the margin. The figures represent 

 the entrance of Sol into Scorpio and are emblematic of the birth of 

 the Sovereign on a Sunday in the month of August, In its style of 

 workmanship and state of preservation it is equal to the best specimen 

 of Jehangir's coinage. Marsden in his Numismata Orientalia has 

 a figure of a bacchanalian medal of the Emperor, but the legend in 

 it is given on one side. He also alludes to a medal in the Collection 

 of Mrs. Welland, which has the legend round the margin, but the 

 wording of which appears to be different. 



The word ibn in the legend, the Babu said, was suspicious, inasmuch 

 as it occurs in no other coin of Jehangir, but he accounted for it on 

 the ground of exigency of the metre in which the legend was written. 

 The bacchanalian character of the figure, he added, was in no way 

 unbecoming a monarch who, in his autobiography, reckons the daily 



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