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I am aware of only two other specimens of the coins of Bedar Shah, 

 but they are both rupees, and therefore I believe my coin is unique in gold. 



One of the silver coins is in the collection of Mr. Mark Thornhill, late 

 B. C. S., and has been described in the list of that gentleman's coins by 

 Nawab Muhammad 'Abd-ul 'Aziz Khan, a Pleader of the Judge's Court at 

 Farrukhabad, in a publication of the Bareli Literary Society in 1867. 



The other is, I believe, in the cabinet of the late Col. Guthrie. A rub- 

 bing of it was sent by Col. F. W. Stubbs to the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 and noticed in their proceedings for May 1871 ; and a promise was made 

 at the time that a drawing of it would be published, but I understand that 

 as the coin itself was never sent to Calcutta, no drawing was ever made or 

 published. 



In addition to Mr. Blochmann's remarks regarding Bedar Bakht in the 

 Proceedings for May 1871, which are very interesting, I may add that 

 Bedar Shah nominally occupied the throne for only two and a half months. 

 He soon disgusted his patron Ghulam Kadir Khan by his puerilities, such as 

 flying kites (patang-bazi) in the public streets, &c, and after the flight, 

 capture, and execution of Ghulam Kadir Khan by the Marhatas, Bedar 

 Shah was for a short time kept in confinement in Salimgarh, but after- 

 wards suffered a cruel death. His body was thrown into a hole near the 

 Nao Mahall, a building which formerly existed in the vicinity of the Dihli 

 gate of the Fort. 



The Tarikh-i-Muzaffari contains a good narrative of the events which 

 resulted in the elevation of Bedar Shah. Mr. Seton-Karr's Selections from 

 the Calcutta Gazettes for 1774 to 1788 are interspersed with several notices 

 of Bedar Shah and of the revolution at Dihli. See also Captain Francklin's 

 " Life of Shah 'Alam", pages 181 to 195; but by far the best and most 

 comprehensive account of the transactions is to be found in " Keene's 

 Mughal Empire", Book II, Chap. VI, pages 169 to 189. 



Baha'dur Sha'h. 

 Plate VI, No. 17. Silver. Weight, 171 grs. A. H. 1257. 



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The last of the Mughuls, who was sentenced to banishment for life for 

 complicity in the Mutiny of 1857. He died at Rangoon on 7th Nov. 1862. 

 His coins are rare. Lord Ellenborough stopped the issue of money in the 

 name of this Titular in the cold season of 1842-43. Before that on the 



