IBN BATUTAH IN SOUTHERN INDIA. 59 
Keridah 
Fakhr-ad-din Muhammad Mustafa, Khadam Mustafa, 
I A H. 764-5. A.H. 769. 
Shah Jehan (?) Shah 
I 
Mubarak Shah, 
A.H. 763. 
Between tlie accession of Ghiyas-ad-din Damghan in 746 
and tMs issue of Mubarak in 763, we have therefore a gap 
of some seventeen years with, however, four kings to fill it 
up. Of these, no coins have yet been found of Keridah or 
of Shah Jehan(?) Shah. Those of Nasir-ad-din I have 
already alluded to and one of Fakhr-ad-din's I figure as 
No. 14 : obverse t^^i-^^) W^-^^^, reverse ^^^M (jU=LJ\ . 
One other coin, evidently of the same series, perhaps 
deserves brief notice. I allude to that of Sikandar Shah 
(No. 15). This bears on one side (jVWLJ\ (the Sultan 
Sikandar Shah) and on the other ^^-^J^; ('Ala-ad-din), 
but whether he was one of those who helped to fill up the 
interval between Nasir-ad-din and Keridah (?) if there were 
any intermediate kings or was subsequent to Khadum Mus- 
tafa, it is at present impossible to say. 
That there is in the above a great deal that is hypo- 
thetical must, I fear, be allowed ; but at the same time it 
must be remembered that we are here dealing with a line 
of kings, of whom history, but for the casual remarks of a 
casual traveller, is silent, and that these small copper pieces 
are pages of an unwritten story, the very names on which 
have never been reeJi'ded as far as we know elsewhere. As 
time goes on doubtless more will be unearthed and more 
information thus gained about them, and it is chiefly with 
a view to calling attention to their historical importance 
and in the hope that coin-collectors will not pass them by 
unheeded that this note appears. 
