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" The coins, principally of silver found in Gour, are very nume- 

 rous, but I regret to say, so little numismatic taste or historical 

 enquiry, apparently, exists amongst the resident planters and others 

 in the district, that old coins, which have been brought to them by 

 ryots in exchange for the new ones, and which might have led to 

 important dates in the history of by-gone ages, have not only been 

 melted down into ornaments and jewellery of different kinds, but 

 fashioned up into tea-pots and shaving mugs. 



" The accompanying silver coins were all found in Mussulman- 

 Gour, and, I should say, may easily be deciphered with the assistance 

 of Mr. Laidley's key to the coins of the kings of Bengal, published in 

 one of the numbers of the Journal, which I have not by me to refer to. 



" No. 1, appears, by its Sanscrit legends surrounded by the 

 Arabic characters, to belong to one of the Delhi Emperors : the rest 

 from No. 2 to No. 7, seem to be of Hussein Shah and his son and 

 successor Nusserit Shah. 



" 1 have used above, the expression Mussulman-Gour, in contra- 

 distinction to Hindu-Gour, which I feel inclined to think commenced 

 a few miles to the North of the existing high bunds or ramparts at a 

 village called Gungerampore, bordered by the Kalindra River : from 

 thence I procured the copper coins from No. 1 to No. 12 in packet A. 



" The tide of Mussulman robbery and spoliation seems to have rolled 

 southwards from Gungerampore to a nullah near the village of Pu- 

 keria, carrying with it the desecrated ruins of many noble Hindu tem- 

 ples and palaces, to raise mosques and shrines dedicated to the icono- 

 clastic bigotry and intolerance of the religion of the Prophet. 



" Of Hindu-Gour as a city, nothing remains above ground." 



List of Silver Coins (7). 



Jo. 1st. 



Delhi Emperor— date A. M. 962 ? 



„ 2nd. 



Hussein Shah (?) 



„ 3rd. 



Date A. H. 794 temple Jelalloddeen (?) 



„ 4th. 



Nusserit Shah (?) 



„ 5th. 



Hussein Shah (?) 



„ 6th. 



Ditto (?) 



„ 7th. 



Same as No. 5th. 



