1895.] 
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Philological Secretary— Report on old coins. 
(III) Report on 17 old silver coins, forwarded by the Deputy Com¬ 
missioner of Nagpur, with his No. 3354/656,, dated Nagpur, 30th May, 
1894. 
The coins are stated to have been found on the 18th October, 
1893. The exact locality of the find is not mentioned. 
The coins are old Nagpuri Rupees of native mintage, in the 
usual indifferent condition, and of a very common type. Sixteen 
among them are issues of Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1161-1167 A.H. = 
1748-1754 A.D.) and one of Shah ’Alam. Some of the former show 
the mint name Surat, others seem to have Katak. The date is lost on 
all of them. 
(IV) Report on 51 old silver coins, forwarded by the Deputy 
Commissioner of Nagpur, with his No. 4558/656, dated Nagpur, 
23rd July, 1894. 
The coins are stated to have been found in Mouza Kumbhari, 
Tahsil Ramtek, while digging in a field. 
They are small silver coins, of the kind generally known as 
u Gradia.” They are described and figured in the late Sir A. Cunning¬ 
ham’s Goins of Mediaeval India , p. 53, plate VI., figs. 7 and 8, and else¬ 
where. The coins of the present find are of two slightly differing 
varieties or dies, and very much clipped. 
(V) Report on eleven old silver coins, forwarded by the Deputy 
Commissioner of Shahpur, with his No. 751, of 2nd November, 1895. 
The coins are stated to have been fouud in the town of Miani in 
the Shahpur district. 
They are all rupees of the Durrani king of Afghanistan, Mah¬ 
mud Shah, who reigned from 1216-1245 A H. = 1801-1829 A.D. They 
are also all of the Kashmir mint, and of the year 1217, regnal 2. 
(VI) Report on five old silver coins, forwarded by the Collector of 
Champaran, with his No. 832, dated Motihari, the 5/16th November, 1894. 
The Collector reports in his letter, addressed to the Commission¬ 
er of the Patna Division, No. 831, dated Motihari, 5/16th November, 
1893, that in February, 1893, hidden treasure, amounting to Rs. 2,000, 
was found in the village of Dumri, under a pakka wall. Only 5 coins 
of this treasure were recovered by the police. 
These five coins are rupees of the following Mughul emperors of 
Delhi i— 
a, Akbar, 963-1014 A.H. = 1556-1605 A.D. 
An Ilahi rupee, month Isfandarmuz, of the Aljmad- 
abad mint, regnal year 41 (?), like Br. Mus. Cat., 
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