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tlie Sultans af Kashmir. 
93 
I accordingly secured tlie services of an intelligent native who could 
read Persian well and draw a little, and who was moreover honest and 
so active as to seem almost ubiquitous. He made two or three journeys 
on my behalf and the result was that on starting from Amritsar on a 
year’s furlough I had the pleasure of taking with me coins with the 
names on them of no less than seventeen Sultans. One of them, how¬ 
ever, had come to me in exchange from my revered friend General 
Cunningham,—that of Fatli Shah. During my absence Dr. Stulpnage! 
employed the same young man with equally good results for he obtained 
an additional coin, that of Yaqub Shah’s. I afterwards secured a second 
one for General Cunningham. The accompanying three plates represent 
the coins thus obtained. 
I do not think I can do better than transcribe the inscriptions so 
far as I can decipher them. Perhaps more successful numismatists or 
happier possessors of better specimens will be able to put me right on 
several points. I need not say how happy I shall be to be corrected as 
what I am in search of is historical correctness. We must not be 
shocked at the revelations of the coins. Here they are, the metal 
records, struck, as we have every right to believe, by the Sultans them¬ 
selves during the time of their reign. We must take them exactly as 
they are— 
Margin. 
** . t* 
• t* I • 
do. do. do. 
Reverse in 
scalloped 
lozenge. 
^ • 
do. 
do. 
Obverse. 
Ho. 
AFT 
AVI 
do. 4 
UahJf 5 
do. 6 
Variant of No. 3. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
Illegible. 
do. 
? ? ^3 
do. 
do. 
. do. 
^ ** 
A 
do. 
\3 p&cy 
Smudged copy of above. 
do. 
sCu jpi 
Muddled copy of margin 
do. 
do. 
do. 
of No. 7. 
♦ * A * 
do. 
do. 
do. 
•• • »♦ 
do. 9 
do. 10 
