1897.] Dr. Hoernle — Rare Hindu and Muhammadan Coins. 
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The date appears to be 801 H. The unit figure one is not quite 
distinct; it has become attached to the first up-stroke of in Sultan. 
The mint seems to be clearly enough Hisar. 
The year 801 is that of Timur’s raid (jihad) into India. On the 
17th December 1398, he captured Delhi. He advanced from Multan. 
From thence the direct route would have been by Bhatner, Sirsa, 
Hisar, Hansi, Rohtak to Delhi. The Ghaggar river, however, followed 
a different course in those days. So Timur marched from Sirsa 
(Sarsuti) by Fathabad, Tohara, Kaithal to Panipat, and thence to 
Delhi. He thus left Hisar to the south of his route, at a distance of 
about 30 miles from Fathabad. At that time Hisar was a new town 
and fort; it had been founded, 44 years before, by the Delhi Emperor 
Firuz Shah, in 1354 A. D. In Slier Shah’s time (947-952 H) it became a 
favourite mint; but before him it has never been noticed as a mint 
town. It is curious that Timur in the diary of his raid, makes no men¬ 
tion at all of the place and its fort, though he passed so very near it. 3 
There is a mint-town Hisar in Bukhara, of which two silver coins 
are known, of the Shaibani line of kings. 4 These kings followed the 
Timurides. One of the last Timurides, Mas‘ud, was the ruling Gov¬ 
ernor of this Hisar in 872-873 H., but no coins of his struck in Hisar 
appear to be known. This Hisar, of course, might have suited Timur ; 
but the date of the present coin, 801 H., points to the Indian Hisar, near 
which town Timur was in that year. Moreover the date and the general 
style of the present coin point to India. Moreover, the letters of its legends, 
8 See the diary of his raid in Sir H. M. Elliot’s History of India , Yol. Ill, 
pp. 428-433. 
4 See British Museum Catalogue, Yol. VII, Nos. 140, 141. 
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