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Obverse. 



Reverse. 



Gheias ud-din seems to have been a gay and accomplished prince. He 

 was in correspondence with the poet Hafiz, who addressed an ode to 

 him. He died according to Ferishteh a. h. 775, having reigned six 

 years and some months. 



His son Seif ud-din succeeded on the throne with the pompous title 

 of Sultan Assulatin. I have not been fortunate enough to procure any 

 coins of this monarch, but copy that figured No. 6, from Marsden*s 

 ' Numismata Orientalia — 



Obverse. 



Reverse. 



Historians ascribe to him a reign of ten years. He died in a. h. 785, 

 and was succeeded by his son Shams ud-din Sani, the last of a dynasty 

 unusually long in those times. The author of the Tabqat-i-Akbari, 

 Nizam ud-din Ahmed, ascribes a short but prosperous reign to this 

 prince ; but Ferishteh describes him as young and inexperienced ; 

 from which we may infer, that he was most probably assassinated by his 

 successor, a powerful Hindu nobleman, named Raja Kanis, (Ganesa ?) 

 No coins have been found of Shams ud-din Sani, who died in 787. 



As Raja Kanis never openly embraced the Muhammadan faith, it is 

 most probable that he never issued the coin of the realm in his own 

 name. To have omitted the usual symbols of Muhammadanism 

 would have been a perilous experiment on the forbearance of the bigot- 

 ed followers of the prophet, and to insert them would have compro- 

 mised the Raja with the adherents of his own faith. Either alternative 

 was, perhaps, avoided by the issue of no new currency during his reign, 



