172 C. J. Rodgers —Notes on the coins of the Tabdqat-i-Ndsiri. [No. 3, 
inscription is quite unlike anything "known of the time of Rezia, or of 
her father, Shamsu-d-din. The absence of the name of the Khalifah 
stamps the inscription as the work of a person unacquainted with the 
coinage of the period, is always written 0 n the coins 
of Sham su-d-din. 
The next coin given is as follows (note 6, p. 649) :— 
Reverse :— { 
Here we have the usual absence of margin. All the long inscrip¬ 
tion is on the obverse. How could it be on the surface of a rupee P 
The reverse, as usual, is full of anachronisms. 
The next coin given is of Alau-d-din Masaiid Shah, (note 9, 
p. 660) :— 
Obverse :— fcti dlJf tiTe jRiib 
Reverse :— abUR *.j jt fob 
From this coin we note the absence of the full title given to all the 
early Pathan kings, so and so ucl-dunyd. This alwaj-s precedes d- 
din. In all the coins given this part of the formula is absent, as is the 
introductory as-Sultdnu-l- Azim. It is more and more evident that the 
author of the book had seen few of the early rupees of Delili. The 
whole known series of coins follows a fixed formula. 
Of Nasiru-d-din Mahmud Shall “ The following is given as the 
inscription on two of his first coins, a dirham and dinar , (note, p. 672):— 
Obv.— 25 bi ^iRl-vo [tS'ik 
Rev. :— IPf* 
«• 
The other runs thus :— 
Obverse:—| 
Reverse :— ^>*^1 j £?jl jlboh |^v_> 
r J 1 homas did not givo a dinfir of this king. Tho British Museum has 
not got one. I had one. Tho Hon. Mr. Gibbs edited a second. Both 
those had Me reverse above given ns the margin on both sides. Both had 
us-sikkah instead of ud-dindr. Tho reverse of the dinar is tho nearest 
approach to an inscription of t ho period. But it. is not of the reverse, 
but of the margin of the reverse in ease of rupees, and of tlie margin of 
both sides in ease of mohurs. (Sec my lth Supplement, to Thomas just 
published in the Journal of the Society.) It is evident (ho author of 
the book had not made himself acquainted with (lie inscriptions used by 
