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at least during the earlier years. According to histories, in 
758 H. Ilyas Shah sent an embassy to Delhi with presents ; and 
the return embassy of the emperor Firoz heard of the death of 
Ilyas in Bihar and went back.! Furthermore, certain coins of 
Sikandar dated 759 H. bear the mint name, Cawalistan ’urf 
Kamru,’ thus indicating that they had been struck in com- 
memoration of Sikandar’s invasion of Kamri. It seems more 
likely that Sikandar would have struck these coins as the reign- 
ing Sultan, an invasion of the infidel territory being among 
the very early acts that a pious king could doon accession. On 
the present data, therefore, Sikandar’s accession may be put in 
the latter part of 758 H. (1357 A.D.). 
Sikandar’s coins show the mints Firozibad, Sunargaon and 
lis ‘wiile Shahr-v-nau, the three mints of his father, 
: with Satgaon and Mu’azzamabad two tracts 
e 
of the world’’ (Cunningham). The date in its inscription 
as been read variously as 704, 766, 770 and 776 H. Rajab, 
of which the last seems the most likely (this Rajab beginning 
on 6th December, 1374 A.D.). About the inscriptions of the 
mosque Blochmann remarked: ‘‘ The characters are beau- 
tiful, and the rubbings have created sensation wherever I have 
Py m are spread over a fairly long period, 
aon-Bie a and may be roughly divided into three 
Ae Nos. 29, 31 (6). For coins of Sikandar, Firozabad, 750-759, H., 
ewe S., ii, pp, 211-2, 213, P.A.S.B., 1883, p. 60 (758 and -9 HL, baldat), 
PARE.” p.152, No. 37; of Sunargaon, J.R.A.S., ii, pp. 112, 213, 
6 1883, p. 60, (hazrat jalal), I.M.C., ii, pp. 153, 156, Nos. 39, 63, 
J.A.S.B,, 1873, p, 255. 
TRae” 1883, p. 60, I.M.C., ii, p. 152, No. 38. 
paar PP- 218, 219; Riyaz, pp. 106-8. 
andar’s coins of 788-792 H’, J.R.A.S., ii, pp. 214, 215-16; 
