JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY. 
Part I.-HISTORY, LITERATURE, &c. 
No. IV.—1873. 
Note on two Muhammadan Goins.—By the Honorable E. C. Bayley, 
C. S.' I. 
I have the honor to bring to the notice of the Society two fine gold 
Muhammadan coins which I have lately seen. They are both as yet 
undescribed. 
The first is a gold coin of N a e i r-u d d i n K h u s r a u, the usurper 
who ascended the throne of Dihli after the assassination of Qutb-uddiu 
Mubarak in 720 A. H., and reigned a little more than four months. 
The coin is in beautiful preservation and weighs about 1G9 grains. 
It is of the same type as the silver coin, described as No. 155 of Thomas’ 
1 Pathan Kings.’ The marginal inscription is, however, complete and runs, 
In the centre, too, of the reverse, the word preceding reads 
clear as “^b” “ Nayir ul-rahman.” The drawing of the original of Mr. 
Thomas’ coin as given in the plates (PI. iii, fig. 73) seems as if the latter 
had been imperfect at this word. The legends are, therefore, probably the 
same, except as to the denomination of the coin given in the margin. 
The gold coin which I have above described, is in the possession of Col. 
J. J. IT. Gordon of the 29th Regiment Native Infantry, who procured it at 
Peshawar. 
The other coin is also a Muhammadan coin, hut belongs to a later date 
and another mint. It is a coin of the Bengal usurper M u z a If a r S h a h, and 
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