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1902.] Wolseley Haig— Copper Coins in the Wnn District , Barar. 
Note on a find of Copper Coins in the Wun District , Barar.—By 
Major Wolseley Haig, First Assistant Resident , Haidardbad. 
(With Plates I and II.) 
[Read 5th March, 1902.] 
In 1900 some labourers working in a field at Dhanaj in the Darwha 
Ta‘alluq of the Wun District found a number of copper coins buried 
under the soil. The matter was reported and 1,227 coins were recovered. 
I have examined these coins and find that they are, with a few excep¬ 
tions, coins of the later Mughal emperors from the Elicpur mint. The 
following descriptive catalogue of them forms a supplement to the late 
Mr. Rodgers’ paper on Mu gh al copper coins published in Vol. LX1V 
(Part I) of the Society’s Journal. There are a few Dakani coins which 
will be specially noticed. 
I. The first coin which I shall notice is the most interesting, and, 
I believe, the rarest in the find. It is a copper coin of Kalimu’llah 
Shah, the last Sultan of the Bahmani dynasty. This Sultan ascended 
the throne in 1525 A.D., and died in 1527 without ever having really 
reigned, being for a considerable part of the interval between his 
accession and his death a fugitive. His coins are not, however, so 
rare as might be supposed, as money was, I believe, minted in his name 
even after his death. Muhammad Aziz Mirza of Haidarabad has some 
specimens of this coin in his collection, and I have one. 
I have illustrated this coin (pi. I, No. 1). I read the inscriptions 
on the coin as follows— 
Aiif 
dill 
t 
c$W^I 
II. The second coin which I have illustrated is one of which I 
have not been able to decipher the inscriptions. From the appearance 
and style of the coin I think it must be attributed to one of the later 
Qutb Shahi Sultans of Gulkunda. I form this opinion from the 
arrangement of the words on the reverse, (pi. I, No. 2). 
