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much better specimen than the one given in Thomas which was struck in 

 Ddr III Islam." Thomas calls his zm2g'2«e, but I have one also strucic at 

 " Dar ul Islam," and during the last five years I have seen about half a 

 dozen of them. Delili and Dar ul Islam were favourite mints of Muham- 

 mad Tuglaq, but I have coins of the type of No. 159 in Thomas that were 

 struck at not only these two places, but at " Tahlitgali i Delili,^'' " Arsa i 

 Satgdivn" and at " Iqlim i Tuglaqpur xirf (known = i. e.) Tirlmt.'" 

 There are coins extant which were struck at Daulatdhdcl. Thus there 

 were six mints of this one type of coins. The simply Delili marked coins 

 and the Tuglaqpur and. Satgdwn types have not yet been published. 

 Thomas' No. 173 was struck at Dehli. The Lahore Museum possesses 

 three similar gold mohurs. Of these, two were struck in 73i and one in 

 735 and all at Satgdivn in Bengal. 



In Sir Alexander Barnes' " Travels in Bulcliara^^ Vol. II, two plates of 

 coins are given. This book was printed in 1834. Masson's researches in 

 Afghanistan produced over 60,000 coins. From them Wilson compiled the 

 Ariana Antiqua which contains 21 plates of coins, Grecian, Greco-Bactrian, 

 Indo-Scythian, Sassanian and Indian. General Cunningham in his " Coins 

 of the Successors of Alexander in the East" gives fourteen plates which deal 

 only with Grecian and Greco-Bactrian coins. Late discoveries have produced 

 so many new coins that a supplement equal in size to the original book might 

 easily be published. The coins of each dynasty that has reigned in India 

 supply matter enough for a volume. These coins are purchased by private 

 individuals and of course kept in their cabinets, each new type being hailed 

 with numismatic delight. When these private individuals go home, of 

 course they take their acquisitions with them. So that private enterprise 

 in Indian numismatics simply robs the country of its treasures. When a 

 poor student wishes to see the coins about which he reads, he cannot do it. 

 The museums have not got them. The Calcutta Museum is I am credibly 

 informed destitute of coins. It seems to me there is only one way of 

 meeting this difficulty. The Museums of India must have grants made to 

 them for the purchase of coins just the same as Museums at home have. 

 The Berlin museum gets everything good in Europe, simply because it 

 gives good prices. Here in India those who can pay get the best coins. 

 And if the Government of India desires that the museums should possess 

 cabinets of coins, men must be appointed and money granted, or nothing 

 will ever be done except opportunities lost. 



I have shown above how our knowledge of the different kinds of coins 

 has increased. What I desire to see is an increase in the number of coins 

 iu our museums. 



