Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1846

Some months ago as most of the readers of this Journal are perhaps aware the greater part of the collection of ancient coins belonging to the Asiatic Society was abstracted from the Museum and along with these a valuable gold medal the gift of the present Emperor of Russia. [...] There is no date upon it to enable us to fix it with certainty upon the son of Feroz Shah ; but the execution of the coin and the locale of coinage of which several letters are legible leave no doubt of the class to which frA belongs : and as there is no other Mahmvd with whom he can be Confounded unless it be the apocryphal father of Barbek (for the coins of Mahmud the son of Husein are very [...] The transverse wrinkles are very numerous and conspicuous exhibiting on the frontal surface a succession of large ridges and furrows : on the sides of the horns they are much less developed particularly on the inner side and they gradually diminish from the bases of the horns to the tips the last five inches being void of them. [...] The hair is of the usual coarse brittle quill-like and internally wavy character and on the body generally is only threquarters to one inch long ; on the under-surface of the neck two and a half inches and on the limbs and head is close and fine with not half the length it has on the body. [...] There is no black or dark stripe down the xertex ; but the highest part of the body is the darkest and is nearly black the colour being extended in a line to the tip of the tail.