32 C. J. Rodgers— Couplets on coins after Jahangir. [No. 1, 
I strongly suspect they were big children who made this parody, 
and not only big but bigotted. (N. B.—No pun is intended.) 
On a good many of the rupees of Shah ’ATam II. there is no couplet. 
Akbar II., according to the author just quoted, had this modest 
couplet :— 
i. e ., “ The defender of the religion, Muhammad Akbar Shah, struck 
coins in the world through the grace of God.” 
I have not as yet met with this couplet on any of the coins of the 
king; but his coins are rare, as his territory consisted of the Fort of 
Dehli only. 
The coins of Zaman Shah Durrani had this couplet on them :—• 
glA j*(jo & 
i. e., “ The use of the imperial coin was established in the name of 
Zaman Shah by the order of the lord of both the worlds.” 
I am indebted to the author* of the Tarikh-i-Sultam for the follow¬ 
ing bait from the coins of Shah Shuja’ :— 
i. e., “ The light of the eyes, the pearl of the Durrani tribe, the 
king Shuja’u-l-mulk put (his) stamp on gold and silver more brightly 
than the sun and the moon.” 
The following is from the pages of the same author, but could never 
have been struck by the king’s permission :— 
• »S ^ 
l ilk ^ 
{jr'y. (*****■ jy 
i. e., “ The Armanian Shah Shuja the light of the eyes of lord 
Burnes, the dust of the foot of the company, put (his) stamp on silver 
and gold.” 
This couplet beats the Dehli parody hollow. 
On some new rare rupees of Ranjit Deo of Jummun, struck a 
hundred years ago, we have the following :— 
d™ d* 
y^> JiliL 
# Sultan Muhammad IQian, son of Musa Khan Durrani. 
