166 Philological Secretary — Reports on Coins. [May, 



Captain J. Hayes Sadler, 0%. Under-Secretary, Government of 

 India, Legislative Department, proposed by E. T. Atkinson, Esq., 

 seconded by Lient.-Col. J. Waterhonse. 



The following gentleman has expressed a wish to withdraw from 

 the Society : 



R. A. Sterndale, Esq. 



The Secretary announced the death of the following Member : 

 Maulvi Kabir-ud-din Ahmad. 



The President announced that Dr. A. Crombie, had been elected a 

 member of the Council in the room of the Hon. A. Wilson, resigned in 

 consequence of proceeding to England on furlough. 



The President exhibited a photograph of the palm tree (Corypha 

 sp. inc.) now flowering in the Society's grounds, presented by J. T. Glad- 

 stone, Esq. 



The Philological Secretary exhibited a palm leaf Burmese Manu- 

 script containing the nine chapters of Abhidhammatthasangae kampa- 

 thanasangahavilbhago, or Sangro Pali, with a commentary, presented to 

 the Society by H. C. Blaker, Esq. ; and read the following report on a 

 find of old copper coins in the Benares district. 



Report, on 4 old copper coins forwarded by the Collector and Magis- 

 trate of Benares with his No. ~^ s dated the 16th January, 1889. 



In his letter the Collector states that, on the 7th August 1888 

 14 seers of copper pies were found in the jurisdiction of Chaubepur 

 Police Circle in the Benares district. Only 4 specimens,— those sent for 

 identification— were retained, while the rest were returned to the finder 

 and not treated under the Treasure Trove Act. This is to be regretted, 

 because the four samples turned out to be coins of considerable interest. 

 The Collector was at once applied to, to secure, if possible, the balance ; 

 but it was too late ; the balance could not be obtained any longer. I 

 would take the liberty to suggest, that instruction should be given by 

 Government, that no Treasure Trove Coins should be disposed of without 

 first awaiting the result of the examination of the coins by the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal. 



The four samples, sent for examination, belong all to the Indo- 

 Scythian period (from about 150 B. C. to 300 A. D.) Two of them are 

 large copper coins of Kadphises, (]st cent. B. C.) of the well-known 

 bilingual type, figured in the Ariana Antiqua (Plate X, figs. 15-18). 

 Another is a coin of Kanerki (1st cent. A. D.), of the four-handed 

 OKPO type, as figured in Ariana Antiqua, plate XII, fig. 17. The 



