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E. E. Oliver.— The Goins of the Ghaghatai Mughals. [No. 1, 
are many such brick ruins in the Bijnor district, some of them, and the 
most extensive, in the middle of dense forest; their very names vanish¬ 
ed from memory long ages ago. All these remains would I think repay 
excavation. I grieve that I never had leisure to take it up. 
The Goins of the Ghaghatdi Mughals. —By E. E. Oliver. 
( With four plates.) 
In the January number of the of the Royal Asiatic Society’s Journal 
for the past year, I endeavoured to give a short geographical 
sketch of the Chaghatai Khanate, and a historical outline of the rulers 
of this, the most obscure branch, of the great house of Chengiz. A 
branch which nevertheless ruled over a vast extent of country, from 
Dzungaria, on the Chinese frontier, to Af gh anistan; had its eastern 
capital at Almalik, the modern Kuldja, north of the Thian Shan moun¬ 
tains ; and its western at Bukhara in Mawara-un-Nahr. Of this line 
Mr. Poole, in the Vltli Volume of the British Museum Catalogue of 
Oriental coins, says the national collection possesses but three coins, 
struck by Danishmandjeh and Buyan Quli : and I therefore propose in 
the following list, to bring together all the numismatic evidence I have 
been able to obtain through the kindness of friends, who have so gene¬ 
rously placed their coins at my disposal. I would take this opportunity 
to tender my best thanks to them, and also to point out that at present 
there is no dynastic list of rulers that can be considered accurate or 
complete, either in regard to the names of the Khans, the extent of 
their appanages, or the length of their reigns, and that an extensive 
comparison of their monetary records affords one of the most hopeful 
means of obtaining further evidence. Every well verified name, date 
and mint that either private individual or public society can publish 
may prove a useful contribution towards the compilation of any history. 
With the exception of Akhur all the mints noted in the present 
series are towns within the western division of the empire, Bukhara. 
Samrqand, Kash, Soghd, Utrar, Tarmaz, and Badakhshan. What 
coinage may have issued from the eastern mints would probably be more 
likely to find its way to China than to India. On almost every coin 
the characteristic mark of the dynasty ^p, a Tibetan ‘ Chh ’ turned 
upside down, occupies a prominent position. This on half a dozen of 
Khalils and Qazans [Nos. 12 to 17] is replaced by one of a slightly vary¬ 
ing character the lower half of which is a noticeable mark on 
the coinage of the Khans of the Qrim, also descendants of Chengiz. 
