"Read out the legends, O Diwân!"
In obedience to the order Abulfazl, stepping forward, raised the first huge disc which contained a hundred pounds worth of pure gold, and read aloud from about the plain stamped semblance of a rose, these words:
I am a golden coin
May golden be my use.
So from the obverse, where it encircled a lily, came this couplet:
Golden it is to help
The seeker after truth
The Englishmen looked at one another. Their coin of the realm, despite its stamp "Defender of the Faith," held no such sermons.
So from the next largest disc worth just one half the s'henser came these words:
I am a garment of Hope
May hope be high.
and from the obverse:
God in His pleasure
Gives without measure.