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are not mentioned at all. This article was communicated to 
De Sacy who had it printed. 
n the same year Marsden in his ‘ Numismata Orientalia,’ 
Vol. II, devoted some pages to the coins he possessed of the 
Sasanian kings, Firoz 1, Kobad I and Khusrau I. 
For a long time no other scholar directed his attention to 
this subject. In 1840, Longpérier published a comprehensive 
work on the Sasanian coins, entitled ‘ Essai sur les médailles des 
rois perses de la dynastie sassanide’ (Paris), just half a century 
after the memoir of De Sacy. It contained the description an 
difficulty, were read by him for the first time, such as Kobad 
(Kavat); that of Yezdegerd had already been hinted at by 
Tychsen ; but some of his reading of names were wrong, such 
as Shehryar and Azermidokht. Excepting names, no fresh 
addition to our knowledge of Pahlavi was made by Longpeérier, 
in Pahlavi numismatics, and exhibits very clearly the differ- 
ence, inform, of the Pahlavi characters of the earlier and later 
centuries of the Sasinian rule. The author justly remarked, 
that there is but little difference between the characters on the 
iater coins and those used in the MSS. His work was merito- 
rious for the times, although it contained several errors, which 
were pointed out by Krafft in 1846 and by Ed. Thomas 
(« Numismatic Chronicle,’ 1852), but they themselves in turn 
committed several mistakes in their rectifications. 
H. H. Wilson in his ‘ Ariana Antiqua’ (1841) published some 
Sasanian coins with their description. 
A decided advance in our knowledge of the inscriptional 
Pahlavi was made by J. Olshausen, a disciple o y at 
classes of coins just mentioned ; and he discovered names, 
numerals written in words, and other terms, whic ad not 
been read by any of his predecessors. On a certain class of 
