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ago, clearly & die-struck imitation of the rupee of Ghiasuddin Tughluq 

 Shah, described as No. 78, page 47, Thomas's Coins of the Patan 

 Sultans of Hindustan. Were it not for the mistakes made by the 

 engraver of the die, I do not think it would have been possible 

 to have detected the forgery. 



The legends were as follows : — 



Obv. Al-Sultan al Grhazi Ghias ud dunya wa-1 din Abul- 

 Muzaffar. 



Rev. Tughluq Shah al- Sultan ndmin {{$&& a UaLJf) amir ul 

 muminin f-V\ 



Margin, hazihi-1-sikkah ba Hazrat Dihli fi sanat tis'a wa 'ishrin 

 wa sab 'a iat — 



in which the six mistakes are evident : — 



1. Ndmin instead of nagir. 



2. Date in figures impossible. 



3. Difference of dates in words and figures. 



4. The word zuriba omitted. 



5. If of miat omitted. 



6. The usual forms of the letters alif lam, toe, had thick clavate 

 shapes : in this coin they have the more elegant form, first in- 

 troduced on his coins by Sher Shah. 



I had a gold mohur of this king of the type described at page 7 

 of the Supplement to Thomas' Patan Coins with a legend similar to 

 No. 76 of his series, (but perhaps not the same mint), which I con- 

 sider to be a cast ; but Colonel Guthrie, in whose possession it now 

 is, thinks it genuine. Both came from the same place, Rawal Pindee, 

 a nest of coiners. This notice may be of use to collectors." 



The following papers were laid before the meeting : — 

 I. Descriptions of the species of Alycccinoe, known to inhabit the 

 Khasi Kill ranges, by Major H. H. Godwin- Austen, F. E. G. S., 



Major God win- Austen's recent researches in the Khasi hills have 

 increased the number of species oiAlycoei from those hills to 1 6, of 

 which 7 are new, and of several species, previously described, inter- 

 esting varieties have been noticed. The present list does not include 

 all the species from the Assam valley. Beautifully executed 

 figures accompany the descriptions. 



