1893.] A. F. R. Hoernle — Muhammadan and Hindu Goins. 233 
32) of reign. Accordingly liis reign should have commenced in 638. 
Mr. Blochmann, after discussing the subject (Yol. XLII, p. 269), adds : 
“ Wo require, therefore, more evidence to fix the beginning of Mahmud’s 
reign.” Here, then, we have evidence carrying that Sultan’s reign 
back to 842. 
The mint name I am unable to read satisfactorily, but it is ap- 
parently the same as that above on No. 3 of Jalalu-d-din Muhammad 
Shah. The first part, here, might be al- Balad ; though, perhaps, the 
name is only a very crude way of writing Firuzabad ; compare the 
appearance of the latter name on No. 3, below. 
There were five specimens of this coin. One has no date ; another 
has 843 ; on the remaining two the unit figure is not distinctly legible, 
it may be 1 or 2 or 3. The specimen dated 843 is now in the British 
Museum. The undated specimen seems to be of the Mu’azzimabad mint. 
3. Plate VIII, fig. 7. Now in my own cabinet. This is a new type. 
Obv. : area in indented quatre 
foil : 
1L4J| Li 
f^l J 
Obv. : margin in sections : 
upper left : *<**> 
lower „ : £? 
lower right : 
upper ,, : Apt" 
It may be noticed that this is again a coin of the Abul Mujdhid 
type, and that the date is another early one of 843. 
There were seven specimens of this coin ; all, except two, dated 
843. On the remaining two the date is lost. One of them is now in 
the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; another, in the British Museum. 
4. Plate VIII, fig. 8. Now in the Indian Museum ; the only speci- 
men of this kind in the find. It is apparently a duplicate of the coin 
published by me in' this Journal, Vol. LII, p. 218, PI. XVI, No. 4, but 
it is in much better preservation, showing all the peculiarities of this 
type of coin. 
Rev. : in circular area within 
ornamental border : 
LijJl 
^/^li 
HI 
bj+s :* 3 OJfcLsr*^| 
No marginal legend. 
