372 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [NS., XIV, 
P.S.—I have said that on the Aurangzeb rupee figured in 
Num. Sup. IV, the final letter looks more like an alif than a re. 
I would invite attention to Rodgers’ Copper Coin (J.AS.B., 
1895, Pl. XVIII, No. 80), in which also the final letter is clearly 
an alif, if the drawing can be relied upon. It is perhaps not 
unworthy of note that it is of the 4th year of Farrukhsiyar 
(B.M.C. 893 is of the 5th), and that Rodgers’ own decipherment, 
so far as it went, was fo, 
S. H. B. 
197. NoveELTIES In PartTutan Corns. 
Parthian numismatics have been made the subject ot 
study by some well-known numismatists since the celebrated 
Arsacides, Paris, 1853; the 18 engraved plates were not 
St. Petersburg, 1892. Drouin has given a very able summary 
and review of this paper in the Revue Numismatique, Lag 
1893. Rapson (Numismatic Chronicle, 1893, pp- 203-219) 
has also reviewed it but from points of view other than 
according - Gutschmid), and was probably fought im ™*. 
lonia_ or usiana. The drachmes (see B.M. Catalogi® pe é 
col., pl. xxxvi, figs. 14 and 15) assigned ¢ the 
perhaps a son of A abanus, furnish the evidence ° ae 
remnant of Parthian rovalty after the final ov aes 
Ardashir I, the founder of the Sasanian empire. _ There 
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