356 
E. Thomas —The Initial Coinage of Bengal.— P t. II [N 0 . 4, 
No. 5. Silver. Size, 8 b Weight, 165 grs. a.h. 617. 
(2 specimens.) 
Obyeese. 
Reyeese. 
<xlJ| 
&u 
Margin —^ &CJ| #<aa 
fljUJuo 
No. 6. Silver. Size, 8. Weight, 169. (Coarse badly formed legends). 
a.h. 617. (2 specimens.) 
LW| | 
U~ —^— j 
-X -i/C( 
&■ 
Obyeese. 
^uyut 
{jpy£ J-d 
J jX<\j. —^li 
^ LS^J 
«♦ 
J 
Reyeese. 
aR| ill <Cf i/ 
—lJ | 
• jJA / 0 5 .— +j| 
(AT 
J- 
-X/Of 
Margin— 
H ^ 
I ** {* * 
4-i.Ata £-V«w* <XV/jo 
No. 6«. Variety. One example giv-S the altered marginal reading of 
*A 
*JUu * * 
v : 
A1 Naqir li-din Illah was invested in the Khilafat in a.h. 575, and 
died on the 1st Shawwal, a.h. 622 (5th October, 1225, a.d.). Bar Hebrfeus, 
Ahulfaraj , pp. 269-301. Ibn Asir, p. 285, fixes his death at the end of 
Ramazan. Price, Muhammadan History, ii., 210. 
The tenor of the legends of the consecutive issues of a.h. 617 disclose 
an increasing confidence in his own power on the part of Grhiyas-ud-din ’ hvaz , 
in the addition made to his previous titles, and in the assumption of the 
superlative Al A’zam, “ the highest,” as the prefix to the Al Sultan in 
place of the heretofore modest adjective of Al Midazzam, “ the great.” # 
Bombay Persian Text, i., p. 122. Badaom, Calcutta Persian Text, p. 88. Tabaqat i 
Nagiri, Calcutta Persian Text, pp, 157, 163, 199, 243, 245. 
# Altamsli himself seems to have been indifferent to this distinction, but its importance 
is shown in the early coinage of Muhammad bin Sam, who invariably reserves the super¬ 
lative prefix for his reigning brother, while he limits his own claims to the virtually com¬ 
parative ^Jijt+ip And further to mark these gradations, he prominently adopts the higher 
title after his brother’s death. Chronicles of Patlian Kings, pp. 12, 13, 14. Ariana 
Antiqua, pi. xx., figs. 29, 35. 
