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to make it agree with the reign of Mahmud II, that he thought it was 
illegible. The year 847 or 849 only suits Mahmud I, and it shows that 
the inscription must be ascribed to him and that he used also the Jcunyat 
Abul Mujahid. It thus appears that out of six known inscriptions of 
this Sultan, he calls himself Abul Muzaffar in five,* * * § and Abul Mujahid in 
one. A circumstance which tends to confirm the ascription of the last 
inscription to Mahmud I is that it commemorates the erection of a mosque 
during the Sultan’s reign such as could hardly have been 
built during the short reign of 6 months of Mahmud II, a boy 7 years old. 
In the third place. My coin No. 8 b is important as it fixes a new date 
for Mahmud Shah I. The latest date hitherto ascertained, from inscriptions, 
was 863.f The earliest known date of Mahmud’s successor Barbak Shah 
was Safiar 865. Thence Blochmann rightly concluded that Mahmud Shah 
must at least have reigned till the beginning of 864. J The coin, No. 8b, 
now proves that he actually reigned in the year 864. 
In the fourth place. The reverse of No. 8, is noteworthy. Laidlay 
(J. A. S. B., XV, p. 328) says of Nasiru-d-dm I, “ being unable to record a 
royal paternity on his coinage, he seems to have contented himself with the 
simple repetition of his name and title, etc.” But Nasiru-d-dxn I evident¬ 
ly had neither cause nor inclination to be so humble, for on the coins 
No. 8, he claims to be the son as well as the grandson of a Sultan. This 
claim is supported by the histories, which “ agree in describing him as a 
descendant of Ilyas Shah.”§ May not his reverse on No. 8 show that 
he was actually a grandson of Ilyas Shah, and a son of Abul Mujahid 
Sikandar Shah ? 
In the fifth place. There is a curious resemblance between my coin, 
No. 12, of Barbak Shah, and the coin of Saifu-d-din Abul Muzaffar Firuz 
Shah II, published by Blochmann in Vol. XLII, p. 288. The resemblance 
is particularly striking in the reverse. 
I now proceed to describe the coins :— 
I. Abul Mujahid Sikandar Shah. 
Of this Sultan there are two coins. One belongs to the type described 
by Mr. Thomas in the J. A. S. B., Vol. XXXVI, p. 66, No. 26, and figured 
in Marsden’s Numismata Orientalia, Plate XXXVI, No. DCCLIX. The 
other (Plate XVII, No. 18) is also described by Mr. Thomas, ibidem, p. 64, 
* J. A. S. B„ Vol. XLI, pp. 107, 108 ; Vol. XLII, pp. 270, 271 ; Vol. XLIII, 
pp. 294, 295 ; Vol. XLIV, p. 289. 
t J. A. S. B„ Vol. XLII, p. 269, Vol. XLIV, p. 288. 
7 J. A. S. B., Vol. XLII, p. 269. 
§ J. A. S. B., Vol. XLII, p. 269. 
