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VI. Nos. 6 and 7 rev. (Hormaz IV and V) where the letters are little 

 more than lines, while in No. 6 the attendants on the rev. are little more 

 than perpendicular saw-edged lines which would in a further stage of 

 debasement have easily taken the form of lines of dots : while the form 

 of the altar in PI. VII, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 8, and 9 (Adrasher II and Varahran 

 V) shows how easily it could degenerate into the series of lines which 

 appear on Mr. Leggett's coins. 



The more I examine them and compare them with the Sassanian the 

 stronger is my opinion that Prinsep's suggestion was, like most of his sug- 

 gestions, right, and that it has been confirmed by subsequent investigation. 



We are, however, much indebted to Mr. Leggett for his carefully 

 worked-out paper on a series of coins which have been so little noticed, 

 and it will I trust lead others, and more experienced numismatists on this 

 branch than myself, to discuss the subject. 



5. On Ramtinlcis. — By the Hon'ble J. Gibbs, C. S. I., C. I. E. 



Mr. Gibbs referred to what he had said on a previous occasion 

 (Proceedings for 1883) regarding those curious medals known as 

 Ramtinkis, and now gave a minute description of 14 medals which 

 had come before him and some of which have been photographed by the 

 autotype process and will form the subject of a plate in the forthcoming 

 Journal for this year in which the paper will appear. Mr. Gibbs stated 

 that further inquiry led him. to the opinion that these were medals and not 

 coins, and were struck for religious purposes alone. 



Mr. H. Rjvett-Carnac said he had one or two of these in his collec- 

 tion, and the information obtained respecting them coincided with the 

 views expressed by Mr. Gibbs. Some of those in his Cabinet shewed 

 strings of small figures, suggesting they were not coins, which would 

 bear the portrait of the reigning monarch, but tokens or medals used on 

 the occasion of pilgrimages or religious ceremonies. 



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IBRARY. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the 

 Meeting held in February last. 



Transactions, Proceedings and journals, 

 presented by the respective Societies and Editors. 

 Allahabad. Punjab Notes and Queries,-— Vol. I, No. 5. 

 Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University— Circulars, Vol. Ill, No. 28. 



