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Some of the Muhammadan Corns collected by the Afghan Boundary Com¬ 
mission from an historical point of view.—By Major H. G. Raverty. 
I beg to be allowed to offer a few remarks on the coins procured by 
the Af gh an Boundary Commission, described by Dr. A. F. Hoernle, the 
Supplementary No. IV of 1889 of the Society's Journal having just 
reached me. 
I do not pretend to a knowledge of numismatics, but of history: my 
object here is to clothe these dry bones with a short account of some of 
the chief events in the lives of those rulers in whose names they were 
coined; and even from this, brief as it is, we shall again have a proof 
that truth is often stranger than fiction, and we shall find that there is 
more connection between some of these rulers in their lives and mis¬ 
fortunes than might be expected. 
The coin, serial number 41, which has been described as of “ ’Ala- 
ud-din Muhammad bin Takash,” belongs really to his father, who ascended 
the throne of Khwarazm in Rabi’-us-Sani, 569 H. (1173-74, A. D.), and 
died in the middle of Shawwal, 596 H. (1199 A. D.) ; for if the inscription 
be read, we shall find that it is “ Us-Sultan-ul-A’zam, ’Ala-ud-Dunya wa 
ud-Din, Abu-l-Muzaffar, Takish, bin Khwarazm Shah. # He obtained 
possession of Nishapur, the capital of Mu’ayyid-i-A’inah-dar’s territory, 
mentioned farther on, in 569 H. (1173-74 A. D.). 
That it is a mistake to call this a coin of ’Ala-ud-Din Muhammad 
may be seen from the following coin 44, which bears this inscription, 
“Us-Sultan-ul-A’zam, ’Ala-ud-Dunya wa ud-Din, Abu-l-Fath, Muham¬ 
mad, bin us-Sultan Takish.” The title, Abu-1-Muzaffar, being that of 
Takish Khan, and Abu-l-Fath, that of the son. The other title, ’Ala-ud- 
37 Metre, S'loka (Anushtubh). 
33 The a/csharas in brackets are illegible here ; but the word is quite 
clear in the Amgachhi plate. 
# See Tabakat-i-Nasiri, pp. 239—244. 
