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1890.] 
w vdmchhya ‘desh-ed,’ or some such word. The reverse legend is 
the usual ‘ with the power of a Hon.’* * 
Plate VI, fig. 6 is the unique gold coin of the Bengal Sultan Jalalu- 
d-din Path Shah, mentioned in the Presidential Address, p. 66 of the 
Proceedings for February 1889. It was obtained from Malduh, were it 
was found by a common man, washed out of the ground by the rains. 
It reads as follows : 
Obverse : lylhl^j ^il\ 
Reverse i j 
^ !sti qj*** (if'l 
The legends may be translated thus : 
Obverse : The SultAn, who is enlightened by the light of the Chosen 
(and) the Divine, who is entitled ‘ Sultan of those who are devoted to 
vigils and contemplation ’ ; 
Reverse: The Shaikh, who waits on the Qadam Rasul, Jalalu-d- 
dunya wau-d-din Abul Muzaffar Path Shah, the son of the Sultan Mah- 
mud Shah. (Coined from) the Revenue of 890. 
Jalalu-d-din is said to have reigned from 886 — 893; see this Jour- 
nal, vol. XLII, p. 281. The coin is dated 890. 
Qadam Rasul is the name of a famous place of pilgrimage near 
Dacca (see ibidem, p. 284). Another is said to be near Cuttack. The 
inscriptions of Baba Salih (ibid., p. 283) always speak of two such places. 
It is probably the slirine near Dacca that is intended on the coin. 
On the silver coinage of the Siiri a good deal of information has 
been already published, especially by Mr. Ch. J. Rodgers ; see ante, 
p. 154. Still a collection of coins, received in September 1889 from the 
Government of the N.-W. Provinces, enables me to add a few novelties. 
Slier Shah is profuse in the variety of design of his rupees, and it 
may be well as a matter of convenience, for the purpose of reference, 
to bring them into some definite classification. I would suggest the 
following :t 
TYPE I, two square areas with marginal sections. 
Variety 1, areas single-lined, date and Nagari name on obv, 
area ; as-Sultdn al- Adil on rev. area. Common. 
* Mr. Smith in Coinage, p. 88, has tho remark : A. 0. has two coins of Chandra 
Gnpta “ killing lion,” under the ‘ lion-trampler ’ type.” But they would seem to be 
the same as that now published. 
+ The references in brackets are to published specimens. 1 regret that the 
Brit. Mas. Catalogue is not available to me. 
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