1894.] 0. J. Rodgers— Supplement to Thomas ’ Chronicles , No. 5. 
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Coins Supplementary to Thomas ’ Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of Dehli , 
No. V’.—By C. J. Rodgers, Honorary Numismatist to the Government 
of Lidia. 
(With Plates IV and V.) 
I began drawing the coins in the accompanying plates when on a 
visit to Sir Alexander Cunningham, at Simla, in 1885. During the time 
I was Archaeological Surveyor, I had but little leisure for drawing coins, 
though I came across many novelties in my tours and saw many in the 
collection made by the Afghan Boundary Commission. Since the 
Archaeological Survey was closed, my time has been fully taken up with 
work on coin catalogues. In this work, I again saw many coins new to 
numismatics, but they did not often belong to the period or the portion 
of the empire treated of in Mr. Thomas’ “ Chronicles.” Sometimes I 
came across coins accidentally, and sometimes while making a catalogue 
of the coins I had previously collected and had afterwards sold to the 
Panjab Government, I discovered that there were coins to which I had 
not previously paid sufficient attention. Meanwhile some of the coins 
I had drawn were edited, but not in the Journal of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal. The last coin I drew was finished in the last week of 
March 1894. 
The coins in the plates are without arrangement. They were 
drawn as they came under my notice. 
This is the last supplement I shall be able to give to Mr. Thomas’ 
excellent work. There are, I know, many coins now known which were 
not known to Mr. Thomas and which I have seen but not noted. For 
example, the copper coins of the Surl Islam Shah, with mint names on 
them, are now somewhat numerous, but they have not been edited. 
Again the many varieties of the corns of ‘Alau-d-din of Khwarizm have 
not been drawn. It is a pleasure to me, however, to know that all these 
coins are in the museums of India. They will give employment to 
future numismatists. 
It must not be supposed that our knowledge of the coins of the 
kings who ruled over India for about 300 years before the time of 
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