I 74 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIII, 



Kh 



Khusrau 



on both sides. Drouin admits (Revue Archeologiqne, 1898) 

 that " It is not impossible, nevertheless, that the fact of the 

 issue is accurate, that among the coins we have of Khusrau II 

 with the date of year one " aioki," the figure and the youthful 

 appearance indicate that they appertain to this issue." In my 

 opinion those without the monogram and without the winged- 

 crown are actually the coins mentioned by Tabari, but with the 



Khusrau 



The mint is expressed on this coin in four letters NIH(Ji. 

 Ed. Thomas (Journal R.A.S., 1852, p. 402, PI. I. No. 39) con- 

 founded this monogram with NIH ; ignoring the bent form of 

 the extremity of H which presents itself verv clearly on the 

 coins. This curve in the form of C can only be the letter Q\. 



Mordtmann (Z.D.M.G., 1879, p. 120, No. 25) followed 

 Thomas in taking both the monograms together and read NIH. 

 He identified them with Nishapur and added that in Pahlavi 

 Nishapur was also written Nhshapur. But some hesitancy is 

 revealed by his remark that it is not clear whether both these 

 monograms mark the same locality as both of them are found 

 in the same years, viz., Khusrau I, year 14, 28. 32; Hormazd 

 IV, year 10, 11; Khusrau II, every year 



Subsequently (Z.D.M.G., 1879, p. 125, No. 45) he read this 

 same monogram on a coin of Khusrau II, year 9 as NACh and 

 expressed his belief in the identity of the monogram with the 



Nakhjevan on the Araxes on the 



Cjtj».iO 



Russo-Pers,an frontier, the NaiWa of Ptolemy (V. 13). 



xnese readings are no longer tenable in view of the conclu- 



rn s ? rg ^ tS ° f ?* Mor 8 an < Revue Numismatique, p. 360, 

 s J is). llns readme fNAPM aoo^a tt<».„ j~„u**.,i :* ™«» fat* 



info ,,™„-j i.- "—"ft \"«**vai/ aceuia very aouDlIUl, 11 we ko""- 



mo consideration the numerous specimens which have passed 



through our hands. 



as 



(CI)) 



rnnnrUr! off J — 7 «""«*» it is composed oi two SWOKCO 



comXlff not squared as in A. Frequently the first is 

 completely separated from the second, which forms the head 



of H. VVe 



NAC. 



J!f 8 re ^ iQ g °, f Mordtmann were acceptable, his in- 

 tion would involve the attribution of the value Kb for 



the Pfthlo™ a u~ ITJ e aitnoution ot tne value * 



Pahlavi A, which does not take place in this instance. 



ine reaHimr Mauh _j 



ading 



cheran- h.,f ;* l ,, ."""""wwy suppresses the A in lNasu- 

 cneran but ,t should be noted that the Arabs occasionally 



wrote the name of this town as ^ and in no case did they 

 XIHCavL/' 6 mtervenin g alif - We therefore get the result 



Owing^e^m^ * he d ° e8 l,ot ^ ive the situation of this town. 



g P re8Uraab, y to an error on the part of the printer the 



