Medieval
Indian Coins : Essays on the Coins of Bengal Sultans/G.S. Farid. Mumbai,
IIRNS Pub., 2002, x, 166 p., $20 (pbk). ISBN 81-86786-13-9.
Medieval
Indian Coins : Essays on the Coins of Bengal Sultans/G.S. Farid. Mumbai,
IIRNS Pub., 2002, x, 166 p., $20 (pbk). ISBN 81-86786-13-9.
Contents: 1. A rare Kalima-Khalifa type coin of Iltutmish. 2. Coins of Iltutmish from Lakhnauti. 3. Balban’s Lakhnauti coin bearing month. 4. A new 942 AH coin of Sher Shah and his accession. 5. Unknown coin of Mohammad Adil. 6. Hithero unknown Silver Tankah of Sultan Alauddin Ali Mardan Khilji, 607-610 AH. 7. The first known coin of Nasir Shah, a Slave King of Bengal, 836-837/1432-33. 8. Rare Lion Coins of Jalaluddin Mohammad Shah of Bengal including a unique hexagonal variety. 9. A new and unique Ten Tankah commemorative coin of Jalaluddin Mohammad Shah of Bengal (818-837 AH). 10. The coin of Sultan Shamsuddin Ahmad of Bengal, 836/1432. 11. Shamsabad: a new mint of Yusuf Shah of Bengal AH 879-885/AD 1474-81. 12. The first known coin on Sikandar Shah II of Bengal, 885/1480. 13. Two coins of Jalaluddin Fath Shah of Bengal. 14. Madaran, a new mint of Fath Shah of Bengal dated 887/1483. 15. The first known coin of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud II of Bengal 895-896 AH/1489-1490 AD. 16. Three coins of Qutubuddin Mahmud Shah of Bengal, 896/1490. 17. Note on a Gold Coin of Sultan Shamsuddin Muzaffar Shah of Bengal, 896-899 AH. 18. The duration of the reign of Alauddin Husain Shah of Bengal in the light of a new coin dated 931 AH. 19. A coin of Alauddin Husain Shah of Bengal dated 931 AH-A rejoinder. 20. A fresh assessment of the coins of the Habshi rulers of Bengal. 21. Some unrecorded and rare coins of Sultans of Bengal in my collection. 22. A new coin of Shamsuddin Mohammad Shah of Bengal. AH 960-962 (AD 1553-1555). 23. Two hitherto unknown Sultans of Bengal. 24. A note on the concurrent coins of the Princes and the Sultans of Bengal. 25. The markings on the coins of the Sultans of Bengal. 26. The figure coins of the Muslim rulers. 27. A token of the period of Sultans of Bengal. 28. An unpublished Awadh Medal of Queen Nawab Tajmahal.