1873.] 
359 
E. Thomas —The Initial Coinage of Bengal. — Bt. II 
Coin of Altamsh. 
No. 8. Silver. Size 8^-. Weight, 168 grs. Square Kufic characters, 
which seem to belong to Lahor or some northern Mint.* PI. x., fig. 6. 
A.H. 62*. 
Obverse. 
j UWf 
si 
tsiAL ^UaLJl 
dJL/f 
Reverse. 
i/i sJ\ y 
S+3Z /C 
f dJJj 
^A/cl dP( 
Margin— 5 I 
Bengal Coins of Altamsh subsequent to the re-assertion of iii& 
Imperial Sway. 
No. 9. Silver.. Size 8. Weight, 161 grs. Bengal type of coin. 
a.h. 622. 
Obverse. 
(j£.+ax1j| 
j.*clj dJJ| 
Lip' 0 
Reverse. 
As in Nos. 6 and 7 ,-—coins of 
Ghiyas-ud-din, with the name of 
the Khalifah Al Nagir-li-din Illah. 
Margin— 
M »» 
AjUJU* j 
Altamsh does not seem to have found it convenient to proceed against 
his contumacious vassal, who was now ready to meet him on almost equal 
terms, till a.h. 622, when the coinage immediately attests one part of the 
compact under which peace was secured, in the exclusive use of the name 
* Chronicles of the Patlian Kings, p. 15. PI. i., figs. 4—8. 
•f This word as designating the coin is unusual; but we have the term 
for the Mint, and the etc., as the ordinary prefix to the AA&Jt or dSCJf of the 
Patlian monarclis. The letters on the Bengal coins look more like which, however, 
does not seem to make sense. Frselm long ago suggested that the word i -ij+o ought to bo 
received as a substantive, especially in those cases where the preposition did not follow 
it, in the given sentence, as a prefix to the name of the mint city. 
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