1921.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXV. 105 
In 1846 Savelief published some remarks on the coins of 
Civil Service, to investigate the Pahlavi coins of the earlier 
in the decipherment of the legends on the later Pahlavi coins. 
He described, (a) the coins of ‘ the purely initiative, imitative, 
coinage of the Arabs, from A.H. 18 to 43’, during which period 
the Arab conquerors used the coins of the later Sasanian kings, 
whether it was suggested by the remarks of Mordtmann to the 
same effect, does not clearly appear; suffice it to say, that 
Mordtmann’s note on the subject appeared in 1848 (° Zeitschrift 
der Deutschen Morgenliandischen Gesellschaft,’ Vol. IT, p. 112); 
: i 9. He likewise 
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Indian characters), already attracted attention; but 
honour of having first more minutely examined them, belongs 
certainly to Thomas. He traced some of these coins more 
fully in a separate note to his edition of Prinsep’s ‘ Essays on 
Indian Antiquities,’ 1858 (Vol. II, pp. 107-116); and in the 
same edition, he has made several other scattered remarks on 
Pahlavi coins (Vol. I, pp. 12-15, 39-35, 62-72, 93-96 and 120- 
126). He also contributed a series of articles to the ‘ Journal 
palaeographer, who could identify characters which are diffi- 
cult to read; but in his philological explanations he is not 
very successful. 
Whilst attempts were made to investigate the language of 
