1921.) Numismatic Supplement No. XXXV. 107 
. 
600) ; (c) those whose alphabet is identical with that of the 
books (A.C. 600-800). 
Notwithstanding the extent of his material Mordtman did 
not rest satisfied with his researches ; but, deeply interested in 
the subject he sought for and examined 3,000 more coins in 
addition to the 2,000 previously mentioned. His further inves- 
tigations, the aim of which was to complete and rectify his 
former efforts, were published in two subsequent articles, in the 
‘ Journal of the German Oriental Society (Z.D.M.G.)’ for 1858 
and 1865 (Vol. XII, pp. 1-56 and Vol. XIX, pp. 378-496). He 
also wrote an essay, in which he explained the Pahlavi inscrip- 
tion on seals, entitled ‘Studien tiber geschnittene Steine mit 
Pehlevi Inschriften,’ inthe ‘Z.D.M.G.,’ Vol. XVIII, of 1864, 
ete. But although the observations of Dorn contain much 
valuable matter, and even some real corrections of Mordt- 
which he so interprets. They suppose that they may be the 
names of the die cutters, or signs indicating the value of the 
coin or honorific epithets ; but all these opinions seem ground- 
less, and have been very ably refuted by Mordtmann (° Z.D.M.G..,’ 
Vol. XIX, pp. 373-413) 
e. 
Stickel in the second part of his ‘ Handbuch zur morgenlan- 
dischen Miinzkunde ’ (1870) and in the ‘ Z.D.M.G.’ (1870, p. 636) 
devoted several pages to the Arabo-Pahlavi coins and to some 
uncertain coins struck in Sogdiana during the Sasanian period. 
The best collection of plates of Sasanian coins is that pub- 
