Twilight of the Sultanate c13.s3.58

c13.s3.58

¹¹¹ Numismatic evidence shows that Husain was in power in Jaunpur till only 883 H, although the earliest known coin of Bahlūl Lodī which bears the mint name of Jaunpur is dated 888 H. Fuhrer states that Khairuddīn Muhammad in his *Jaunpur-Nāmā* gives the date of the final deprivation of the kingdom of Husain as 884 H (A.D. 1479). (J. A. S. B., XVIII, 1922, Numismatic Supplement, XXXVI, 17). Husain Sharqī died in 905 H, but his coins run in complete sequence to 911 and then irregularly to 919 H. These coins are definitely posthumous. Who issued Husain's coins after 884 H? There can be only one explanation. A son of Husain Sharqī, Jalāluddīn, had married in the Husain dynasty of Bengal, says *Jaunpur-Nāmā*. There are graves in Jaunpur where Husain and his descendants lie buried. It is quite possible that one or two descendants of Husain Shāh issued posthumous coins in his name. But numismatists do not help to elucidate the point. Bahlūl Lodī administered the Sharqī kingdom himself for several years and his coins bearing the mint town name of Jaunpur are known in complete sequence from 888 to 893 H. In either 892 H (A. D. 1486) Bahlūl placed his son Bārbak on the Sharqī throne, or before his death, while dividing his kingdom, confirmed Bārbak in his appointment. J.A.S.B. 1922, Num. Sup., 17-18. Coins of Bārbak Shāh range from 892 to 898, which dates agree with the record of historians. Also Thomas, *Chronicles*, 377. C.I.S.G., I, 233.