120 Note on Col. Stacey's Ghazni Coins. [No. 2. 



the name of Mahmud is expressed, differ considerably in the several 

 specimens, graduating from the formal letters of the old Kufic to the 

 interlaced flourish of more modern writing. In some examples again, 

 the titles p~&Uy\ and in others sXJ\^xk\ are engraved in fine lines 

 within the areas, but the position they occupy is indeterminate. 



Where decipherable, the obverse marginal legends usually purport 

 that the piece was coined at Ghazni in A. H. 395 et seq ; but in many 

 of these Coins the marginal spaces are filled in with mere unmeaning 

 repetitions of short perpendicular lines and small circles, which last 

 in imperfectly formed Kufic legends answer for either j*Aorj 



No. 9. [to follow xliii.] Silver, wt. 37 gr. Unique. 



Reverse. 





Obverse. 



«u 





J*£ 







3fl *J| % 







O ^+i 



dj*^° 





Margins 



illegible. 





Note. — [No. liv.] While last year at Jhelum, I met with a variant of the ela- 

 borately designed copper money of Mahmud described and figured under No. liv. 

 of my list in the Jour. Royal As. Soc. The Jhelum specimen possesses the pecu- 

 liarity of having the word %< £ inserted before the name of the city of Ghazni 

 Tthus <2SyejL5o~] This is the only instance within my knowledge of the use of 

 this prefix in this series. 



I am indebted to Sir H. M. Elliot for the reference to the subjoined 

 notice of the impositions practised by certain Hindus, which led to an 

 extensive deterioration in the local standard of Mahmud' s Silver 

 coinage. 



The Persian text appears defective, I however give it, as it stands, 

 merely inserting variants from a second copy, without at present enter- 

 ing into any further remarks. 



