1892.] H. G. Raver ty —Some Muhammadan Coins. 99 
Mirza died 29fcli Zi-Hijjah, 850 H. (29th March, 1446 A. D.), after 
reigning forty-three years, consequently, the coin No. 191 assigned to 
him, if the date 848 H. is correct, is his, of course, but if 868 H. it is 
not. It is said to be counter-struck with the name of Sultan Abu-Sa’id.* 
In the ’Arabic character given at page 41 of Journal, it is 
instead of Sultan—Mirza Abu-Sa’id, Bahadur Khan —was the 
grandson of Mirza Miran Shah, Timur’s fourth son, who ruled in 
Mawara-un-Nahr and Turkisten, and whose capital was Samr-kand. He 
ascended the throne of Samr-kand in Jamadi-ul-Awwal, 855 H. (1451 
A. D.), and, some years after, dispossessed the descendants of Sultan 
Shah Rukh. Mirza of Khurasan and parts farther west, and acquired the 
whole power over Sultan, Shah Rukh Mirza’s dominions, in 861 H. 
(1456-57 A. D.,) and lost it again, but regained it in 863 H. (1458-59 
A. D.,). He was at last put to death, after being taken captive in battle 
by the Turk-man, Hasan Beg, the Ak-Kunilu, who gave him up to 
Mirza Yad-gar Muhammad, son of Sultan Muhammad, son of Mirza 
Ba’e-Sunkar, the last of Sultan Shah Rukh Mirza’s descendants, who 
put him to death 22nd Rajab, 873 H. (January, 1469 A. D.) in retalia¬ 
tion for his putting to death, most unjustly, when he gained possession 
of Hirat the first time, in 861 H., Gohar-Shad Bigam,t the venerable 
consort of Sultan Shah Rukh Mirza. He ruled over Mawara-un-Nahr, 
etc., eighteen years, and ten years over those parts and Khurasan and 
the rest of the empire possessed by the last named monarch. 
Coin No. 193. “Husain Baikara, Governor of Khorasan ” (?). 
Mirza Husain-i-Ba’e-kara, was the son of Mirza Sultan Mahmud, one of 
the sons of Sultan Mirza Abu-Sa’id, Bahadur Khan, above-mentioned, 
who succeeded his brother, Mirza Sultan Ahmad, over Mawara-un-Nahr 
at Samr-kand. When his father died in Muharram, 900 H. (October, 
1494 A. D.), Mirza Husain-i-Ba’e-kara, who succeeded, deprived his 
brother, Mirza Sultan ’Ali, of his sight, as was supposed, but his eye-sight 
was not wholly destroyed. He fled to, and raised an army at, Bukhara, 
and advanced to Samr-kand. Ba’e-kara was unable to oppose him, 
concealed himself in the city, and subsequently escaped in disguise, 
and retired to the Hisar-i-Shadman, the place of his birth,—the 
* Whether the counter striking of coins had any particular signification I am 
not certain, but it seems to me, that it had in this instance, and that it was done 
by Sultan Abu-Sa’id, Bahadur Khan, to indicate that he had dispossessed the 
family of Sultan Shah Rukh Mirza of that monarch’s empire. 
f Mirza Yad-gar Muhammad was her great-grandson. The Pul-i-Khan that 
one used to hear so much about when the Russians seized upon the Afghan 
dependencies of Hirat, and were allowed to keep them, is said to have been erected 
at the expense of this Princess. 
