4 Col. Prideanx — Remarks on Gandahar Coins. [Jan., 



The following letter from Colonel Prideaux was also read by Dr. 

 Hoernle : — 



" I was much interested in reading Mr. Rodgers's Paper in the April 

 No. of the Proceedings on " Some coins from Candahar," and especially 

 in his remarks on the new and hitherto unknown coins of Sistan. I am, 

 however, sceptical with regard to his King Hardufi, or Harufi. One 

 can trust very little to representations of coins which are drawn by 

 hand, but the inscription on his No. 21 (obverse) seems to me to be 

 Taju-'d-Din Harb bin Muhammad. What Mr. Rodgers reads as " Har- 

 dufi," I read as " Harb bin," and I should be disposed to ascribe it to 

 the historical Harb of coin No. 20.* This was the King who reigned 60 

 years, so Khadim AH says, and was a contemporary of Chengiz Khan 

 and the Khalifa En Nasir-ed-din-ullah. As for the mysterious word 

 which reads as cjyL? according to Mr. Rodgers, of course there was a 

 Syriac month called Qantin, but at the same time the word on Mr. 

 Rodgers's drawing of the coin might be read fifty ways." 



The Philological Seceetart exhibited 60 copper coins sent by Mr. 

 H. Rivett-Carnac for exhibition to the Society, and read the following 

 extract from the letter accompanying them : " I send for the inspection 

 of the Society copper coins obtained from the Panjab, which appear to be 

 of rare, if not of unknown, types. Many of them approach those figured 

 in the Ariana Antiqua and in Prinsep's Indian Antiquities as Indo- 

 Sassanian coins. Others again bear a distinct impression of the Bull 

 with inscription. The variety is considerable, but as I have not had 

 time to examine them carefully, I think it well to send them without 

 delay to the Society to whom the types may possibly be well known. It 

 may be noted that some of the coins seem to have been stamped twice 

 over, — the bull above some former design." 



Dr. Rudolf Hoernle stated that he had examined them carefully 

 and found that they all appeared to be Kashmir coins of various dates 

 and types. They consisted of the following kinds : 



No. 1. Fifteen specimens. Plate I, figs. 1 — 4. Ohv. Head or bust 

 of king, facing right with fillet behind, after the fashion of Sassanian 

 coins (see Ariana Antiqua, Plates XVI and XVII). In front of face, 

 along the margin, legend in later Gupta characters, ^ f^f%T^f^ Sri 

 Mihirahula, or (on two specimens) ^ fiff^Tir^ S'ri Mihiragula. Bev. The 

 circular area divided by a straight line in two unequal parts. In the 

 upper and larger portion, standing on the line, a bull walking, to the 

 right, towards what looks like a low trident set up on the line, in front of 

 bim. Above his hind-quarters a crescent. In the lower, smaller part of 

 the area, a legend in later Gupta characters : ^^^ t^ jayatu vrislia, 



