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( NOV 27 1889 J 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Part I.— HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 



No. I.— 1889. 



Coins of the Muhammadan Kings of Gujarat. — By E. E. Oliver, Esq. 

 (With 3 Plates.) 



Looking over a large number of coins belonging to Mr. Eurdoonjee, 

 an enthusiastic numismatist of Bombay — in which Presidency be had 

 exceptional opportunities for collecting the coins of the old Muhamma- 

 nan dynasty of Gujarat — I find a good number that do not appear in the 

 British Museum Catalogue, nor in the list given by Thomas, and that, 

 so far as I am aware, have not yet been described. Supplemented with 

 some from my own cabinet, I have filled two or three plates, which may 

 be interesting in continuation of those described by Mr. Poole from the 

 National Collection. 



It is unnecessary to attempt any sketch of the dynasty, that for 

 over a century and a half, ruled the destinies of Gujarat. One of the 

 principal of those Muhammadan States that sprung from the ruins of 

 Muhammad ibn Tugblaq's declining empire ; and maintained more or 

 less of splendour and of power, till they were once again reducod to 

 provinces of Dehli by Akbar. A useful general outline of the leading 

 events is given in Mr. Stanley Lane Poole's introduction to the volume 

 in the British Museum series above referred to, treating of the minor 

 Muhammadan States ; and the late Sir Edward Clive Bayley in his 

 volume on the history of Gujarat, has brought together the more inter- 



