864 E. Thomas —The Initial Coinage of JBengal. — It. II. [No. 4, 1873. 
Suffice it to say that JDaulat BJidh bin Maudud is the person who is spoken 
of elsewhere as Ikhtiyar-nd-din Bale:a' # Khilji , and who appears in history 
on the single occasion of his possessing himself of the kingdom of Bengal 
on the death of NaQir-ud-din Mahmud, and his subsequent suppression and 
capture on the advance of Altamsh’s forces in the selfsame year, 627 A.H., 
he was unwise enough to record on his unauthorized coinage. 
No. 13. Silver. Size 9i. Weight., 168. Unique - Plate x., fig. 9. 
a.h. 627F 
Obverse. 
aU b^ajjL»+J f 
^_A.fiJfj)| 
Reverse. 
(Jib 3 L*a^.v£ (J IxJl 
•* 
(j-fi/Oj.*. 1 ) ^j.A.a:| ^A$i=> <*JU| 
Margin— # * 
The reading of cs3^L?*t is speculative : the letters 1*1 f are distinct, as 
are also the two dots of the <j?, hut that latter itself cannot be traced, and 
the visible remains of the character succeeding the Wl are more like 
+• 
than the suggested gs> 
lSAIx! (^jlkl^) 
Calcutta Text, p. | f l£lj jIaa:Lj i®ll«c <Xaa3 ^3 ^ y 
In tlie printed text, under the first Court Circular list of the y (Jj.-lxi of Sultan 
Shams-ud-din, we find the following entry iAI-Lc ^ 5:^3 (.*» • and in the 
second document, purporting to he a variant of that official return, we read sr^* 
^LxA.|t®fLo (pp. | y y and | y A ), which latter version is greatly improved 
hy the Oriental Lord Chamberlain’s list preserved in a MS. in the B. M. (Addit. No. 
26,189), which associates more directly the title with the name, and identifies the 
individual as l£b Lja.| .SlJLo, 
# The word Balled has exercised the commentators. It may be found, however, in 
the early Ghaznawi name of Baited- tigfn. means a “ camel colt,” and ^ax!) 
is “ handsome.” 
