1834.] the Coins and Relics of the Mdnikydla Tope, 445 



PAO NANO PAO . . OOHPKl KOPANO. 

 There is some indistinctness, and perhaps an omission, about the 

 central portion of this inscription, where portions of the letters are cut 

 off, or entangled with the ornamental head-dress of the prince ; but we 

 are fortunately able to clear up this uncertainty from a coin depicted 

 as No. 2 of Professor Wilson's plates, in the seventeenth volume of 

 the Researches, and stated by my predecessor to have been discovered 

 in a field near Comilla in Tipera. The inscription on this coin, of which 

 the fac simile in type metal, cut for the Researches, is fortunately in my 

 possession, is now rendered legible by our acquired knowledge of its 

 associates ; I here place the corrected reading under the fac simile : 



PAO NANO PAOKA NHPKlKOpANO 



and it at once enables us to supply the omission in the centre of the 

 Manikyala gold coins by the name already so familiar to our ears, as 

 Kanerki or Kanerkou . 



Are these various coins then all the production of one sovereign, or 

 was the superscription of that prince maintained by his successors, and 

 gradually lost by the corruption of the Greek characters, in which it 

 was endeavoured to be conveyed ? To these questions a satisfactory 

 answer cannot be given in the present state of our knowledge : but we 

 cannot avoid remarking that the.. K6NOPANO of the elephant coin may, 



by a very trifling alteration, be read as Ki KOPANO, which will 



bring it to coincide with the other coins of this extensive family. 



The degeneration of individual letters is sufficiently visible in the vari- 

 ous forms of the p, the a, the K, and the M, in the specimens engraved 

 but a more wholesale abandonment of the primitive form may, I think, be 

 pointed out in the third gold coin of Mr. Wilson's plates, being one 

 of what we have called the bull and raja, orKadphises, coins. The legend 

 on this is very prominent, and contains, under a trifling disguise, the 

 very letters of the same sentence ; the first letter P is wanting, and the 

 three final letters of the last word 



Fac simile, q^q nOSOpCJ Q/t O O PO *\OY 



Corrected reading, ( p )aOnAnOpaO OOHOKOP (afo) 



The collection received from Keramat Ali has put me in posses- 

 sion of two gold coins of this curious species ; (which was indeed held 

 to be of doubtful origin, from Colonel Mackenzie having apparently 

 multiplied fac similes of his in silver ;) they are thin, and of exceedingly 

 clumsy manufacture, but the legends in both are plain, though much 

 more transformed than the specimen just given. Fig. 10 of Plate XXVl 

 represents one of these coins, and fig. 11, the principal characteristics 

 of the other, namely, the inscription, the king's head, (already alluded 



