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[N.S.] 
possible that the earlier coins of the second batch might have 
been issued jointly with his father who on account of old age or 
dying in 791 H.). From 792 H. (1390 A.D .) down ; 
(1396-7 A.D), he appears to have been clearly the site Sultan 
al. 
Lastly, ree coins of A’zam are found dated 810 to 813 H. 
(1407—1410 A.D.); while parallel with them appear coins of 
Shihabu-d-din Bayazid Shah dated 812 H. (one date read doubt- 
fully as 809 H.).!_ The latter would seem to have been issued in 
rebellion, for the Chinese annals leave no doubts as to Ghiya- 
su-d-din’s living up to 814 H. The Ming-shth or history of the 
Ming dynasty says that Ai-ya-see-ting, the king of Pang-kola, 
sent to the Chinese court in an embassy with presents in- 
cluding horses and saddles, gold and silver ornaments, 
drinking vessels of white porcelain with azure flowers an 
many other things; and that in 1409, the same ri spelt 
Gai-ya-szu-ting, sent another embassy to China. In 1412 A.D. 
(814-5 H.), the Chinese ambassadors of the return aging met 
Indian envoys bringing the usual presents, and learnt from them 
that the king had been dead and had been succeeded by Sai-fu- 
ting.” The coinage is thus supported by the Chinese accounts. 
The coinage calls for some remarks. new mint appears 
in Jannatabad, its earliest being dated 
790 H. (1388 A. D. ).8 This place has not yet 
been identified, but can hardly be Lakhnauti to which the title 
was given much later by the Emperor Humayiin (see supra, 
p. 212). A notable fact is the entire disappearance of Sunar- 
gaon as mint. This town, that appeared so frequently in the 
previous reigns, sometimes under the highly honorific title of 
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His Coinage. 
city.’” The omission is more remarkable if the general tradi- 
tion be true that A’zam himself lies buried in a tomb at 
Sunargaon, still pointed out. The removal of the seat of gov- 
ernment from Sunargaon must be largely connected with that 
great cause of physical changes in Lower Bengal, the diversions 
A’zam’s coins of 788-792 H., J.R.A.S.. pp- 219,220, P.A.S.B., _ 
pp. 91, 144, 1.M.C., ii, pp. 157, 159, Nos. 70 (** the capital,” 788 HL), 
71, 80, “hi 
or A’zam’s coins of 810-3H., P.A.S.B., 1874. p. 158, ASB. 142, 
1898, sa 165, 169, B.M.C. ; for Shihab’s coins of 812H., J.A.S 1873, 
263, 1883, P. 217 (2 809 H.), P.A.S.B., 1893, p. “144, LMC. i, 
No. B.M.C., p. 29, No. 67. 
2 Pa elise: EGS A. 8.R., xv, pp. 173-4; J. R.A. S., 1895, p. 533, 1896, 
ia 
R.AS., “y P. apy ie LM.C., ii, p. 158, Nos. 76 (* 9*) and 
1179" B.M.C., p. 24, No. 
