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Note on Col. Staceys Ghazni Coins. 



[No. 2. 



so far complete in itself, by inserting full transcripts of the legends 

 and engravings of specimens of the leading classes, I trust it will 

 prove an acceptable contribution to the Journal of the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal, whose pages, I may remark, as yet bear no record of the 

 coinage of the first Moslem Dynasty of Zabulistan. 



I prefix a Table shewing the order of succession of the Ghaznavi 

 Sultans, together with a summary of the dates of accession of those 

 contemporaneous Potentates whose names find a place on their medals. 

 A Table of the Ghaznavi Dynasty , fyc. 









Kings 



03 0O 





Khalifs of Baghdad. 



Dates of accession. 



of 



1.2 



Samani Emperors. 









Ghazni. 



< " 







A.H 



A.H. 



A.D. 





AH. 





Al Muti'h lillah, 



334 

















350 



961 



Alptegin, . . 



350 



Mansiir bin Noh I. 



Al Tai'h lillah, 



363 

















366 



976 



Ishak, .... 



366 



Noh bin Mansur. 







367 



977 



Subuktigin, 







AlKader billah....... 



381 

















387 



997 



Ismail,.. .. 



387 



Mansiir bin Noh II. 







388 



998 



Mahmud,.. 



389 



Abdal Malik bin 

 Noh. 







421 



1030 



Muhammad. 







421 



1030 



Masaud. 



Al Kaim be amerillah,. . 



422 













432 



1040-1 



Muhammad. 







432 



1041 



Modud. 







440 



1048 



Masaud II. 







440 



1048 



Abul Hasan All. 







440 



1048 



Abdal Rashid. 







444 



1052 



Toghral. 







444 



1052 



Ferokhzad. 







451 



1059 



Ibrahim. 



Al Moktadi beamerillah, 



467 









Al Mostazher billah, . . 



487 













492 



1099 



Masaud III. 







508 



1114 



Shirzad. 







509 



1115 



A.rslan. 



Al Mostarshid billah,.. 



512 



512 



1118 



Bahram Shah. "J 



Al Rashid billah, .... 



529 







1 Sanjar, the Seljuk Go- 



Al Moktafi leamerillah, 



530 







| vernor of Khorasan. 







547 



1152 



Khusru Shah. J 



Al Mostanjid billah, .. 



555 



555 



1160 



Khusru Mai 



ik. 





The second or reference number in the subjoined list of Coins indi- 

 cates the heading, in the original Masson Catalogue,* under which 

 each piece should be classed. 



* I would take this, my earliest, opportunity of referring to a Review of my 

 Essay by M. DeFremery, which appeared in the Revue Numismatique of Paris in 



