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Numismatic Supplement. 
[No. 1, 
Numismatic Supplement. 
[With Plates I and II.] 
This supplement has been started primarily in the hope that coin 
collectors in India may find it convenient to chronicle in its pages noti¬ 
ces of unpublished or rare coins which they may obtain from time to 
time. 
It is also meant to include notes on other subjects of antiquarian 
and philological interest which by themselves might not afford suffi¬ 
cient material for a paper in the main body of the Journal. 
It is a matter of common experience that casual finds by private 
persons of highly interesting coins are not made public with the free¬ 
dom that is desirable. Almost all private cabinets contain specimens 
which their owners have not had any inclination or inducement to pub¬ 
lish in any recognised journal. 
Public cabinets are also not entirely free from reproach in this 
matter. Supplements to printed catalogues are brought out at incon¬ 
veniently long intervals and new acquisitions of interest may thus remain 
unknown for years except to casual visitors. 
The search for Indian coins since the days of Prinsep and Thomas 
has continued to be keen. The enthusiasm of General Cunningham 
and Mr. C. J. Rodgers in this direction has made itself widely felt, and 
the result is that every year brings to light numbers of coins previously 
unknown to numismatists. This is particularly noticeable in the case 
of the period covered by the later Muhammadan Sultans of Dehli whose 
coins were struck not only at the capital but at many of the more pro¬ 
minent towns in their territories. The list of these towns which is a 
matter of historical and possibly geographical interest is being yearly 
added to in consequence of private research. 
Similarly for progress in the study of ancient Indian history the 
publication of finds of new coins is all-important. 
It is in the help that such notices afford to those engaged on 
the larger work of tabulating the numismatic records of specific periods 
