222 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (July, 1909. 
kong (Sonargion) appears as a port of Pang-ko-la (Bangala) ; 
and among the terms of the treaty concluded between “Isa 
Khan of Bhati and Shahbaz Khan, the military governor of 
Bengal in the 29th year of Akbar’s reign, was one that the port 
of Sunargion was to receive an Imperial Daro ha. Shahr-i- 
nau with the latest date of 781 H. in Sikandar’s reign” also 
disappeared from A’zam’s coinage. 
_. After A’zam Shah came his son Saifu-d-din Hamza Shah. 
The histories differ as to the years of his 
reign, the earlier ones (Tabakat-i- Akbar, 
Ain, and Firishta’s) giving him ten years 
and Riyaz three years seven months and five days. His 
known coins belong to 814 H. with the mint Firozabad, where 
legible.’ According to Chinese annals he sent an embassy to 
the Chinese Emperor with a letter written in a gold leaf and pre- 
senting a giraffe. This embassy arrived in China in the twelfth 
ear of Yung-lo, 1415 A.D. (817-8 H.). In this year, also, a 
Chinese embassy under Prince Tsi-chao, with presents, were 
received by the Bengal king, his queen and ministers.* he 
coins with the Chinese history thus give Saifu-d-din a reign from 
814 to at least 817 H. 
Shihabu-d-din Bayazid Shah, who had been in tebe 
ae oa A’zam’s time (vide his coins of 812 H. 
eae apparently continued in rebellion, for 
coins of his are found dated 814 to 
817 H. (1411-1414 A.D.), with the mint Firozabad, where 
legible.’ It is not clear who survived. In the histories Shiha- 
bu-d-din (the name also appears as Shamsu-d-din) is placed 
after Saifu-d-din, with a reign of three years and some months 
according to the Ain, three years according to Firishta, and 
three years four months and six days according to Riyaz. 
So much seems established, that both Shihabu-d-din and Saifu- 
d-din were living in 817 H. = 
The coins of these two Sultans reveal one peculiarity. In 
them the dates began to be shown in figures and not words, 
Shihabu-d-din’s coin of 812 H. being the earliest. In Delhi 
’ Hamza Shah, 
814-817 H. 
p. 174. 
6 For Shihab’s coins of 814 H., P.A.S.B., 1898, p. 165; of 816 H.. 
J.A.8.B., 1873, p. 268, P.A.S.B., 1893, p. 141, 1398. p. 165, I.M.C., ii, 
p. ISL, No. 915 of 817 H., LM.C., ii, p. 160, No. 99, aad p: 10), 
