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written language of its own at the time of its collision with the 
Sassanians, and it was customary for the victorious White 
og very like the planetary symbol =) used by the Indo- 
Parthian king Gondophares. When the Ephthalites invaded 
India they struck coins of Indo-Sassanian types exhibit- 
ing legends in Brahmi characters. So Coins Nos. 2 to 10 
belong to a type intermediate between the Sassanian and Indo- 
Sassanian, as they bear a Brahmi character in the field, but the 
legends have not become Indian. This accords well with their 
find-spot on the Indian Frontier. An interesting and clear 
description of the various types of White Hun coin is contained 
in Mons. E. Drouin’s paper ‘‘ Le type monétaire sassanide et le 
monnayage indien.’’ (Mémoires du Congrés International de 
Numismatique de Paris, 1900). 
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now described, which is anew type. It is almost identical with 
the smaller piece, Coins of the White Huns (Cunningham, Num. 
Chron. 1894), Pl. IX, 23, but the inscriptions differ. 
: This is similar to White-King Sale Catalogue, 
Part I, No. 864. The reverse merely consists of the Ephthalite 
symbol within a double circle. It may be a coin of Napki 
Malka—Cp. Cunningham, ‘Coins of the White Huns,” Pl. X, 2. 
No. 138. This coin is akin to the money of Napki Malka. 
It bears the White Hun symbol, and a legend in what may be 
corrupt Greek characters . . . . oshano. 
