66 Philological Secretary —Report on old coins. [April, 
They are all square copper coins of the Sultans of Malva. These 
copper coins used to be very superficially struck; accordingly the 
legends on most of them are worn out so much that neither name nor 
date can be recognized, though sufficient remains to show unmistakably 
the Malva type of coin. There are, however, a small number (less 
than 100) on which sufficient traces of a name or date remain, to 
attribute them more particularly, as shown below:— 
Ghiyas Shah, 880-906 H. = 1475-1500 A. D., of two 
sizes, no date legible .. 4 
Nasir Shah, 906-916 H. = 1500-1510 A. D., of two 
sizes, date 913 on one. 8 
Mahmud Shah, 916-937 H. = 1510-1530 A. D., of 
two sizes, dates 916, 917, 918, 919 (?), 922 on 15 
specimens'....,... 72 
Total ... 84 
There are also two curious coins among the lot. They have the 
usual Malva type, but they show the name Muhammad in full and 
quite distinct. There is no Sultan of that name known among the 
IQiiljl house of Malva. In the Ghori house which preceded it, there 
ife a Muhammad Ghazni Khan, who reigned 838-839 H., but he is 
not known to have struck any coins. Moreover the coins seem to 
show traces of the dynastic name Khilji. and the mutilated date on one 
of them does not fit Muhammad Ghazni Khan. Of this date the unit 
figure 2 is quite distinct, it also shows a slightly mutilated decade figure, 
which (from the remains of it) can only be either 6 or 9, probably 
the former. The only date, that can be made up of these figures to 
agree with the known period of the Malva Sultans, is 862 (or perhaps 
892). The year 862 would fall within the reign of Mahmud I, while 
892 would fall to Ghiyas Shah. The name, however, reads quite clear 
“Muhammad,” not “ Mahmud.” 
(XIY) Report on 64 old gold coins, forwarded by the Deputy 
Commissioner of the Jhang District, with his No. 423, dated 1st April, 
1895. 
In a previous letter, No. 36, dated the 20th March, 1895, the coins 
are stated to have been found in the Jhang District, but no further parti¬ 
culars regarding the date and exact locality of the find are given. 
Together with the coins, a number of gold and silver ornaments, com¬ 
prising thirteen sets, were sent. As to the finding of these ornaments, 
