1885.] C. J. Rodgers —The Goins of Ahmad Shah Abddlli. 
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16tli year. The year is 1175. But that must be a mistake. However 
the Lahore coins go on steadily. One of the 17th year is dated 1176, 
another 1177 A. H. One of the 18th year has 1177, another 1178; a 
19th year one has 1178. The Dehli and Duab coins cease. Ahmad 
Shah no longer ruled there. 1178 A. H. is equal to 1764 A. D. which 
is equivalent to 1821 of the Samvat era. How in 1822 A. S., the Sikh 
commonwealth struck their first rupees of Lahore. (See my Coins of the 
Sikhs.) Hence we shall not expect to find any rupees of the 20th year 
of Ahmad Shah struck at Lahore, I have sought in vain for one of this 
year. After the 16th year, the Cis-Sutlaj coins cease. 
After the Gliuloo Ghara Ahmad Sliah, on his return through Lahore, 
made Kabuli Mull his governor there. Zein Khan had been left 
governor of Sarhind. He was defeated by the Sikhs with immense 
slaughter. The town of Sarhind was utterly destroyed. The Sikhs 
actually carried their victorious arms into the Duab. It was this loss 
of Sarhind which brought Ahmad Shah again to India in 1178 A. H, 
Ho very accurate account seems to exist of this incursion. It seems 
it was not a success. “ 12,000 Afghans suddenly deserted and re¬ 
traced their steps towards Kabul. The Shah was obliged to break up 
his camp and follow them.”* He never returned. This last incursion 
took place in his 18th year. The Sikhs seizing Lahore struck coins 
there first in 1822 A. S., as I have shown. I have seen rupees of theirs 
struck at Lahore in 23, 24 and 25. And yet their rule could not have 
been uninterrupted, for I have a rupee of Lahore of Ahmad Shah struck 
in his 21st year and 1180 A. H., also one of his 22nd year is in the 
British Museum. 
Ho. 14 of my plate contains the following reverse :— 
X x q -•*> 
Dera I have seen on some coins changed to Derajat. This is of 
course the Trans-Indus Province. I have in my cabinet a coin of 
Ahmad’s 25th year struck at Peshawar. It was to this part of India 
his rule was restricted before he died. 
The coin Ho. 17 is a modern Puttiala rupee presented to me by 
the foreign minister of the State. It has on the obverse the whole of 
the couplet of Ahmad Shah who created the 1st Maharaja of Pattiala. 
On the reverse there is the same inscription as on Ho. 13. The mint 
is Sarhind. The katar or dagger is the sign of the present Maharaja. 
As a rule the rupees of this State are thick and dumpy, consequently 
they never have more than a third of the inscription on them. They 
are about the same in diameter as a four-anna piece and about 4 times 
* Kangra Settlement Keport by G. Barnes, Esq. 
