1867.] The Initial Coinage of Bengal. 51 



No. 8. 

 Second Mint, {xhiaspur. Date, 730. 

 Silver. Size, vii. Weight, 166 and 164.5 gre. Very rare. Two 

 coins. Col. Guthrie. Plate I., fig. 5. 



Margin, # &&$& Z*** JJ$ 3 ^ aa-aS aw/i^a # 

 IV. Bahadur Shall, 

 as Vassal under Muhammad bin Tughlak. 

 No. 9. 

 Sonargaon, a.ii. 728. 

 Silver. Weight, 140 grs. Unique. Dehli Archaeological Society. 

 Obverse, && jzltf jiSaJl j*\ jj>JifcJ| y U*All &U* f&M ^UaJLJf 



Reverse, Area, t\^ <^*> <^> <x*a^° dJJb &\j)\j*1} <^j^> 



Margin, &U***j b>ir***J e>^ **-• jjfcjta. i^-a^ a£~Ji 2^a 



Muhammad bin Tughlak Shah, Emperor of Hindustan, 



(in his own name) after the re-conquest of Bengal. 



No. 10. 



Lakhnauti, a.h. 733. 



Silver. Small coins. Size, v. to vj. Weight of well-preserved 



coins, 168.5 grs. Five specimens, Col. Guthrie. Plate I., fig. 6. 



Obv. Rev. 







Reverse, Margin, 



If the place of mintage of these imperial coins had been illegible, 

 I should almost have been prepared, on the strength of the pecu- 

 liarity of the forms of the letters, to have assigned their execution 

 to a Bengal artist. The original model for the type of coinage may 

 be seen in fig. 90, page 54, Pathan Sultans. The late Mr. G. Free- 

 ling, of the Bengal C.S., has left on record his acquisition of a gold 

 piece of the same design (from the Dehli Mint) dated a.h. 725. 



