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1885.] C. J. Rodgers —The Coins of Ahmad Shah Abddllx. 
These five years, from the 5th to the 10th of the reign of Ahmad 
Shah Durrani, were full of events which happened both in Lahore and 
Delili. Meer Munnoo, governor of Lahore, died of cholera. His widow 
Mugalana Begum took up the reins of government and hold them 
with a strong hand. But her son-in-law, Grhazi-ud-Din, invaded the 
Panjab, and with the aid of Adina Beg ruled it, until Ahmad Shah hear¬ 
ing of the disturbances in the country again visited the scene of his 
former conquests. In Dehli Muhammad Shah, the Mogul Emperor, had 
been dethroned, imprisoned, blinded and murdered and Alamgir the 
second had been placed on the throne 1167 A. H. It was in 1170 A. H. 
that Ahmad the Durrani returned to India, Mugalana Begum met him 
with an army which she united to his at Lahore. He made his son, Timur 
Shah, Nizam of Lahore and Multan, while he himself passed on through 
Sarhind to Dehli. Coins Nos. 15 and 16 of my plate illustrate this 
fact. The obverse of these rupees has the following Persian inscrip¬ 
tion on it:— 
at jj+A 
1170 | ! V* j |*A jAs:-? 
The reverse of No. 15 has :— 
jj. - &5I dxkl/Ms J \j (2*. 
Another rupee with exactly the same inscriptions has the year | | v f 
A. H., thus showing that the 1st year of Timur Shah’s Nizamat was in 
1170-1 A. H. 
The reverse of No. 16 has :— 
tytfU —*51 fd 
The obverse of this, No. 16, has the same inscription as No. 15 but 
without any year. (Just as I had finished this sentence a coin dealer 
brought me over 200 rupees to examine. I found one of Multan of the 
1st year of Timur Shah’s Nizamat 1170 A. H.) 
When Ahmad Shah arrived at Dehli he began to plunder. From 
the son of his old enemy Qamar-ud-Din he obtained two krore rupees’ 
worth of ashrafis, and a krore rupees’ worth of jewels. He employed 
Mugalana Begum on this work, and as she knew all the people of Dehli, 
she caused a lot of wealth to be brought in. Besides this the Durrani 
married the daughter of Muhammad Shah, and Timur Shah married 
the daughter of Alamgir II who seems to have helped in the plundering 
