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Sultanshah was ruling Kerman in 472 when Melik Shah visited that province, and continued to govern it in 473, but the date of his death is not recorded. He must have succeeded to the throne about 470; for on the death of Kaward in 466, another son, Turan Shah ibn Kaward, came to the throne and issued a coin at Bardasīr in 467, according to Erman (Num. Zeitschr. Wien). See my Essays in Oriental Numismatics, 2nd Series, 2-5, for an account of Kara-Arslan Kaward. Mr. Avent also possesses (11) a gold coin of the father (mint and date illegible),

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while the reverse shows the name of the Khalif El-Ķāim, and 'Imad-el-dawla, Kāward's surname. Above rev. is A, and beneath

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Abu-l-Hasan Ali ibn Nasr Muhedhdhib-el-dawla, lord of the lower Euphrates Valley (El-Baṭīḥa), appears frequently in the annals of Ibn-el-Athir, from A.H. 373 onwards. He was driven from his country in 394, but was speedily restored by Beha-el-dawla, whose name appears on the reverse of this coin, and to whom he was related by marriage. Abu-l-Hasan died in 408. No coin of his has hitherto been published.

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15. R. Same Prince. Sabur-Khawast, A.. 414.

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16. R. Feramerz, son of the above. Mint obliterated. A.H. 41x.

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STANLEY LANE-POOLE.

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BIRLING, EAST DEAN, EASTBOURNE.

Nov. 1887.

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MISCELLANEA.

TREASURE TROVE FROM DENBY, NEAR BARNSLEY, YORKSHIRE.— The following is a rough list of fifty-one silver coins recently discovered at Denby, not far from Barnsley, in the West Riding. As will be seen, the deposit must have been made not very long after the year 1641. Denby lies among the hills in the south-west angle of Yorkshire, and must, in the days at which these coins were deposited, have been a wild and little inhabited region. This would account for the very poor condition in which some of the coins were, some of the older of them being barely decipherable. It would also make it more natural that the hoard should contain coins extending over a considerable period, from before 1558 (Philip and Mary) to 1641.

In 1642 and 1643 there was more activity in the Civil War in Yorkshire, where the Royal army, under the Marquis of Newcastle, was opposed by Fairfax, than in other parts of England, save in the south-west. In May, 1643, Fairfax defeated Lord Newcastle at Wakefield, which is not more than fifteen miles from Denby. It is easy, therefore, to surmise the circumstances in which this deposit was made.

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The latest m.m. on any piece is the triangle in circle (A.D. 1641). The coins were all in extremely poor condition and contained, so far as could be seen, no rarities.

CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ON THE SHORT CROSS QUESTION.-Page after page of this Chronicle has been devoted to the above subject, and the able pens of Mr. Longstaffe, Dr. Evans, Sir Henry Ellis, and Mr. Kenyon have proved to the satisfaction, I should think, of all numismatists that the short cross issue of Henry II., bearing the legend HENRICVS REX, was continued by Richard I. and John. Nevertheless, if any doubt remains, the following passage, translated from the second continuation of the Chronicles of Florence of Worcester, which has, I believe, escaped the research of the above writers, must set it at rest :

"A.D. 1205. The money issued long before in the year eleven hundred and fifty-eight was this year recoined." The year 1205 was the sixth of the reign of John, and 1158 the fourth of that of Henry II.

This continuation of the Chronicles of Florence of Worcester was written by John de Taxter, a monk of Bury St. Edmunds, who died about 1265. It is, therefore, highly satisfactory that so important and ingenious a theory of our modern numismatists should be thus clearly proved by the evidence of a contemporary writer to be correct.

I came across the passage while searching for historical notes on the coinage of the reign of Stephen, a work in which I have for some time been engaged, and take this opportunity of mentioning that I shall be much obliged to any collector who will furnish me with careful readings of coins of that period. WALTER J. ANDREW.

Moss SIDE, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE,
November 23rd, 1887.

UNPUBLISHED CANTERBURY PENNY OF HENRY VIII.—This coin is not to be found in Hawkins' Silver Coins of England (third edition), and therefore a description of it may not be out of place in the Chronicle.

The general type is that of the second coinage as arranged by Hawkins, the legend on the obverse running h. + D. + G ROSA + SIα + SPIA. The mint mark is T, hitherto, I believe, unnoticed on pennies of this reign.

The reverse differs, again, from Hawkins in being of Archbishop Wareham's mint at Canterbury, which city is not mentioned as issuing pennies of the second coinage.

HENRY SYMONDS.

1 Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis. Thorpe, 1848. Tom. ii. 166.

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