1880.] 



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^Ja^ill jylJaUJi AiJi i^j<i.J^^UJ( AlJi J/t A/| J/ Second Circle. 



^iiiJl jj( J Uj^Jl d,Ui Third circle. 



<>^* Centre. 



Reverse 



c:..^ <xx« Asr^"*! c^'i t/ i**;^ ''^^ v^'^ First circle. 



_>A/c^J2**Jl ^^llal-Jl «iJt Jj-w) li^'o Second circle. 



^iiiJl ^jI ^;jJf j Ujjl Third circle. 



.^^.s* Centre. 



The other five coins have never been described before, as far as I know, 

 and are quite of a new type. They were obtained from an itinerant Kabu- 

 li who was very shy in speaking of the place where they had been original- 

 ly procured ; but as in his conversation he said that he had been in G-hazni 

 and Kabul, and had lately come to Lahore by way of Jellalabad, it may be 

 reasonably presumed that they were not found in the Pan jab, but in the 

 Kabul valley, or perhaps in or near Ghazni. All of these coins are likewise 

 binominal. The weight is between 56 and 79 grains. The area on either 

 side is a square composed of double lines, with the inscription arranged in five 

 lines. The enclosing max'gin is of course in four sections. It is bounded by 

 double circles, The margins are partially abraded, but fortunately one coin 

 is sufficiently well preserved and the following inscription can be therefore 

 made out with accuracy : 



Dates 597 and 598. 

 Ohverse. 



Area &1J| i/t J/ 



Margin : — ^i^U ^^Ic ty^} t^.d j itj«HJ'j ^j'^j J-j i^s'jJ} j'*> 



Reverse 



Area : — ^^J^■)^liJl 



Margin : — "j^l* u^*^ j e;-!:*^-' J c;^*^ <u«j_y^« \^ 



