98 H. G. Raverty —Some Muhammadan Coins. [No. 2, 
Khan, son of Abaka Khan, son of Hulaku, who succeeded in the year 
694H. (1294-95 A. D.). He was the first of them who became a convert 
to Islam in that same year, and commanded all churches of the Chris¬ 
tians, and idol temples (of Mughals) at Tabriz to be destroyed ; conse¬ 
quently, previous to that period, any coin with the Musalman kalimah 
thereon, even with the name of one of the Il-Khans on it as well, would, 
in all probability, be a coin of a Musalman feudatory under the yoke of 
these Mu gh als. who would scarcely have adopted the Musalman kalimah 
on their coins when they were more inclined to the Christians. Hula- 
ku’s wife, Dukiiz Kliatun. and several others among them, were Chris¬ 
tians. On his conversion, Ghazan Khan assumed the title of Sultan 
Mahmud-i-Ghazan Khan. He died in Shawwal 703 H. (1303 A. D.), 
near Kazwin, and was buried at Tabriz, where a lofty domed tomb was 
raised over him, and is probably still in existence. 
With respect to the coin No. 178, with the name of “ Sultan 
Arghun,” thereon, the words OiJ ^ tSUJf i_H*J on the margin, 
is part of a verse from the Kur’an, Chapter 58 :—“ Possessor of all 
power, Thou givest dominion unto whom Thou wilt , and Thou takest 
away dominion from whom Thou wilt; Thou exaltest whom Thou 
wilt, and Thou humblest whom Thou wilt.” This is the same verse 
which Abu Suliman, Da’ud-i-Jaghar Beg, the Saljuk, heard the Mu’az- 
zin at Marw reciting, when the envoy of Sultan Mas’ud of Ghaz-nih, 
presented himself before him. Da’ud was at that time seated on his 
saddle cloth spread on the ground, with his saddle to support him, and 
he ordered this verse to be written down and given to the envoy as 
his answer to the Sultan’s demands. 
The mint name on coin No. 183, is not as “readby Mr. 
Rodgers,” but the well-known place called —Janushan. 
“ Bukhara House of Timur.” 
Respecting coin No. 188, it is hardly correct to style the Sultan 
Shah Rukh Mirza, as “ of the Bukhara, House of Timur,” because 
soon after his accession in Ramazan, 807 H. (1404 A. D.), he ruled 
the whole of his father’s dominions, from Kbit a to Rum, and from 
Tabaristan to Hindustan, in the western part of which, under the 
Masnad-i-A’la, tbe Sayyid, Khizr IQian, the khutbdh was read for him 
and the money stamped with his name. His capital was Hirat, which 
territory he had governed seven years during his father’s lifetime, 
while his father’s capital was Samr-kand, not Bukhara. Sultan Shah 
Rukh Mirza, was not “ Timur’s youngest son,”* but his second son of 
four, the eldest having died before his father. Sultan Shah Rukh 
* See Journal for 1887, page 88. 
