564 Description of the Coins discovered [Nov. 



The same plate XXXIII. represents (reduced one-third) the position 

 of the three cylinders, or urns, of gold, silver, and copper, as they stood 

 in the niche of the under stone, surrounded by eight coins of coppe", 

 arranged in the directions of the cardinal points. The coins are mostly 

 corroded, but they can all be recognized as belonging to Kadphises 

 and Kanerkos. Fig. 12, the one differing from the ordinary coins of 

 this group, and bearing on the obverse the head of a king, with Greek 

 legend, and on the reverse a standing figure of Hercules with his 

 club, surrounded by a Pehlevi inscription, I know from other samples 

 in my possession to belong to a monarch sometimes designated E02, 

 while on others of his coins he is distinctly entitled KA.A$X.. I have 

 no hesitation therefore in ascribing this variety also to a monarch of 

 the same family. 



The contents of the several cylinders of M. Court's tope were bevond 

 all comparison the richest and most curious hitherto met with. The 

 large tope gave M. Ventura, only two ^old coins ; that opened by M. 

 Martin Honigberger, presented only one gold medal of Kadphises. 

 Here, on the contrary, we have no less than four native gold coins, in 

 excellent preservation, in the gold urn ; and seven silver coins in the 

 silver envelope : with this further peculiarity in the latter, that they 

 are all of foreign origin. 



The four gold coins are of a device familiar to us ; they bear the 

 legible inscription, in corrupt Greek, pao nano paO kanhpki kopano 

 which I have described in my former notice. The figures on the reverse 

 of the three first are of the Hindu cast, having four arms, with the 

 epigraphe OKPO (the sun) ; they agree with that of the copper coins 

 described in the preceding page. The last, figure 18, bears the title 

 A©PO, a supposed ethithet of the sun ; for an explanation of which 

 see page 453*. 



The silver coins are entitled to a minute and individual examination ; 

 for, from the first glance, they are seen to belong to the medallic his- 

 tory of Rome, of which the most ample and elaborate catalogues and 

 designs are at hand to facilitate their exact determination. 

 Fig. 19 — is a silver denarius of Mark Antony, struck while he was a 



member of the celebrated triumvirate, charged with the eastern 



* In a pamphlet just received from Paris, entitled •' Observations sur la partie 

 de la Grammaire Comparative de M. F. Bopp, qui se rapporte a la langue Zende, 

 par M. Eugene Burnouf,'' 1 page 7, I find the very two words alluded to in p. 453, 

 fortuitously occurring to rectify my conjectures as to their import — dthre is trans- 

 lated aufeu, and is evidently an inflected case of oar word dthro, which is 

 thus proved to signify simply ' feu,' fire, (dtars, le feu, Atash, P.):— while a little 

 further, we find the words " si Ton trouve une fois dans le VenJidad-Sade, mai- 

 thra pour mithra, c'est une faute du manuscript, que l'accord des autres copies 

 suffit pour faire apercevoir." — May not the same remark apply to the ignorance 

 of the die engravers in writing MA0PO for MI0PO ? 



