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124 JVWe on Col. Stacey's Ghazni Coins. [No, 2. 



No. 14. [lxii.] Silver, broken Coin. 



^a*** Margin. 



Margin* Surah xxx. 4, 5. 



Before closing this notice of the Coins of Masaud, I am anxious to 

 make known an important variety of his Silver money, which has lately 

 come into the possession of Mr. E. Bayley. The piece in its general 

 outline and leading types corresponds closely with the common Bull 

 and Horseman Coins of Samanta Deva (Jour. As. Soc. Vol. IV. pi. 

 36, figs. 3, 4, &c.) but it offers the peculiarity of displaying the name 

 of i;*** engraved in well defined Kufic characters, on the field in 

 front of the Horseman's face, or in the space usually held by the 

 word J** 



A second similar specimen retains traces of the name of A*a^° 

 occupying the same position. 



I consider these pieces to be the produce of the metropolitan mint 

 of the Hindu kingdom of Kabul, the site of which is not as yet 

 satisfactorily determined — and it is in consonance with the usual 

 policy of Mohammedan conquerors to suppose that the local mint was 

 allowed to maintain its old style of issue, modified only by the impress 

 of the name of the ruling Sultan. 



This explanation may possibly account for the previously felt diffi- 

 culty of there being no extant Ghaznavi Kufic Coins inscribed as 

 struck at Kabul. 



In my previous paper on the Coins of the Kings of Ghazni (p. 77) 

 I quoted a passage from Abiil Feda regarding Masaiid's territorial 

 possessions — as some of the names are imperfectly determined I annex 

 the following passage from Bihaki in further elucidation of the subject. 

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