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once more hastened into Khurasan to drive out the U'zbaks, for which 
purpose lie set out in the spring of 919 H. (1513 A. D.). On his 
approach the U'zbaks fled. He remained in ILhurasan and Hirat after 
that for two or three months, and conferred the Government of Hirat 
and all Khurasan on Zanil Beg, the Shamlu Amir; but, in 921 H. 
(1515 A. D.), he nominated his son, Tliamasib, then a mere child, to 
the government of Hirat and Khurasan, with Amir Khan, one of his 
great nobles, as his Atabak or Lalali (governor). The coin in question, 
No. 229, must, consequently, have been struck while Shah Isma’il 
was at Hirat, or soon after, by Zanil Beg, the Shamlu, as governor of 
Khurasan. 
On a future occasion I may offer some remarks on the Afrasiyabi 
Khans of Mawara-un-Nahr and their coins. 
On a Symbolical Coin of the Wethali dynasty of Arakan.—By W. Theobald 
In his article on the coins of Arakan, Pegu, and Burma, in the Numis - 
mata Orientalia Lieutenant-General Sir A. P. Phayre describes and 
figures nine coins which he refers to four kings, viz., Varma Chandra, Priti 
Chandra, Varma Vijaya, and Yari Kriya, the last represented by a single 
coin only, the initial character of which is not clear. I have lately become 
possessed of a second specimen of this coin, also unfortunately not quite 
clear as regards the first letter of the king’s name. General Sir A. 
Cunningham points out, however, that the first and last letters, on both 
my coin and that figured by Sir A P. Phayre are clearly different, and 
the name cannot therefore be Yari Kriya, which, moreover, is no name. 
He suggests as a possible reading the name ‘ Arikiya ’ but more per¬ 
fect specimens must be discovered before this reading can be confident¬ 
ly accepted. The coin, however, clearly belongs to the ‘ recumbent bull ’ 
type of the symbolical coins of Arakan, and may be thus described :— 
Obverse. A bull to the left, recumbent (though from the poor execu¬ 
tion of some coins the animal might be considered as standing), within a 
circle having exteriorly a beaded margin. The king’s name written 
straight across the coin, above the bull’s back. 
j Reverse. A central upright ‘ thyrsiform ’ object or pole, with an 
upright sickle-shaped support on either side; all three being supported 
by, or contained within, a concave horizontal base, but unconnected 
therewith. From the point of either ‘sickle’ shaped object, flows back¬ 
wards and outwards, a curved fillet or plume-like band ornamented with 
seven globes, connected with the fillet by curved items imparting an 
elegant wavy or arborescent effect; while below the central ornament 
