Catalogue of the Coins in the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India Bombay. The Sultans of Gujarat

S. Curator Ardmeologiad Section Worn possesses name and fame on the surface of the earth bears on his nerehead the stamp of the glory of the Sovereign of India Published for the Trustees of the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India AT THE mums 'INDIA PRESS Bombay 1935PREFACE. [...] The coinage of Gujarat was accordingly an adaptation of issues from the coinage of the Tughlaqs whose power was supreme in Gujarat and whose coinage was recognized throughout the land before Zafar Khan declared his independence of the imperial authority and sat on the throne of Gujarat as the founder of the glorious Gujarat sultanant with the title of Muzaffar I. Then during the rule of his suc [...] 105-117.—It is difficult to trace the origin of the real cause of the issue of the rare beautiful and extra heavy coins with the legend in the couplet form. [...] The couplet may be translated as follows :- May the coin of Sultan Muhammad Shah the Aid of the Faith remain So long as in the mint of heaven the discs of the sun and the moon remain. [...] All these coins have more or less the same legend : Nasir-ud-duniya wa-ud-din Abul-Fateh the date on the obverse the name of the sultan in the square and the mint name in the margins on the reverse.