Twilight of the Sultanate c7.s1.126

c7.s1.126

¹⁰⁹ Sharafuddīn (Z.N., II, 118) says : "Maulana Nasīruddīn was ordered to go with other learned doctors and proclaim the name of the Sahib-i-Qirān Amīr Tīmūr Gurgān in the same way as the name of Fīrōz Shāh and other Sultans had been proclaimed ...." But curiously enough Tīmūr did not strike any coins. Neither the *Memoirs* nor Yazdī make mention of any coins being struck on this occasion or even later. Rogers says that no gold or silver pieces of Tīmūr have been ever found. A small copper coin which he calls *damrī* he saw in the British Museum collection. It bears the legend عدل سلطان تيمور on the obverse and ضرب بحضرت دهلی on the reverse. J.A.S.B., XLII (1883) Pt., I, 59, 62, 63. Dr. Hoernle came across a gold coin of Tīmūr, but doubted its genuineness, and published it only as a curio. J.A.S.B., LXVII, 1897, Pt. I, 134-37.