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IX.
COINS OF THE SHAHS OF PERSIA.
(Continued from Ser. IV, Vol. XI, p. 196.)
III. ADDENDA.
(a) Distichs and Legends.
SOME of the following distichs and legends have not
hitherto been published, others appear for the first time
in their correct form :
TAHMASP I J^U ali
HAMZAH 1
Sj*a- OO^j U S.X^ 2 *
SHAH SULTAN HUSAIN c^~:>. ^UaL - u^;' 8JJJ -
'ABBAS II
MAH MUD
* Seal.
1 Mr. R. S. Poole is mistaken in saying that the date of the
deposition
of Muhammad Khudabandah must have been imme-
diately before the enthronement of 'Abbas I, at the end of A.H. 995
(late in November, 1587, n. s.). Hanway gives him a reign of eight
years, so that he was probably deposed in A.H. 994. Olearius
mentions that he died in A. D. 1585 (A.H. 993). Muhammad
Khudabandah was succeeded by his eldest son, Sultan Hamzah,
whom Isma II, a younger son, caused to be assassinated. Isma'il
(III) was murdered in Karabagh by his barber when 'Abbas the
youngest son had already reached that district. Olearius gives
both Sultan Hamzah and Isma'il a reign of eight months. T discovered
two firmans of Sultan Hamzah ; they relate to endowments
of the shrine of Kija in the Kuhdum sub-district of Gilan. They
i. e. between
are dated respectively Ramadjhan and Dhika dah 994,
August and December, 1586, n.s. In one of them Sultan Hamzah
styles himself:
'Abbas I, Safl I, 'Abbas II, Sulaiman I, Shah Sultan Husain
md Tahmasp II use the same formula.
3 The distichs in chapter I should read : Jl *, ^o.l
3 *