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[No. 2, 1871. 
Note on a 
gold coin bearing the name of Prince Ftruz Shah Zafar , 
son of Firiiz Shah of Dilili. 
In March last Mr. E. C. Bayley favoured the Society with a 
note regarding a unique coin in the possession of Mrs. Cowie. 
The coin bears the name of Firuz Shah Zafar. A woodcut had just 
been prepared, when the first copy of Mr. Thomas’s ‘ Chronicles 
of the Pathan Kings of Dehli’ reached this country. 
Mr. Thomas (p. 300) enumerates four coins that bear the name 
of the prince, among them one gold coin, a “ unique specimen 
in the possession of Col. Guthrie,” and “ one silver coin, a new 
variety, belonging to Mr. Bayley,” &c. They are all posthumous 
coins, as Zafar died before his father. 
The wood-cut shews that the original is identical with Col. 
Guthrie’s specimen, of which, however, the margin has been cut 
away. The drawing shews pretty clearly the year A. H. 791, 
which agrees with the third coin described by Mr. Thomas* 
The weight of the coin could not be determined, as it is attached 
to a necklace. The legend is— 
y\ 
“ The great Sultan Firuz Shah Zafar, son of Firuz Shah, the Boyal,f 
in the time of the Imam, the Commander of the Faithful, ’Abdul¬ 
lah,—may his Khilafat be perpetuated !” 
* During the year 791, Abubakr, son of Zafar, succeeded to the throne of 
Dihli, which accounts perhaps for the issue, or re-issue, of coins with Zafar’s 
name. Muhammadan kings liked to style themselves ibn i Sultan ibn % Sultan. 
f Al-Sultdm, adj., the royal. Sultdni, noun, the King. Mr. Thomas’s wood- 
cut has the article. 
