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strong grounds for inferring that the change was simultaneously 

 effected in various provinces of the empire of the foreign, (or domes- 

 tic,) usurpers who supplanted the dynasty of Bactrian descent. 



There is, however, another very curious circumstance to be noted 

 in regard to fig. 12. The Greek legend is kcudvad KAAfclZDV 

 XDVavov- Now, as good luck will have it, Mr. Neave, of the Civil 

 Service, has just favored me with a few old coins picked up in the 

 mofussil, among which is one in excellent preservation and well 

 executed of the KAAA*E2- • ■ • kind described in my former paper 

 (Vol. IV. PI. XXIV.) The name on this coin (which I have engraved 

 as fig. 14,) is very clearly KOZOAA KAAA*. . . . which is just such a 

 deviation from the orthography of Masson's coin, K020TAO KAa*IZOT 

 as a provincial dialect, added to the difficulty of expressing native 

 names in a foreign alphabet, would justify and explain. The name on 

 two of the coins of Plate XXIV. Vol. IV. may be also read KOZOAA. 

 Among several coins of the same class in the collections of Capt. 

 Cunningham and Dr. Swiney, as well as in Masson's plates, other 

 variations of the spelling occur, K022TAO— KOZOVAO, &c. until at last 

 the word becomes utterly illegible. 



In a private letter from M. J acquets of the Paris Asiatic Society, 

 that gentleman expresses his conviction, after seeing Dr. Martin 

 Honigberger's coin, that the name we have called KAa$I2H2 should 

 be written mokaa*I2H2. which he supposes equivalent to the Sanscrit 

 Mahatrishi; but I think we have abundant evidence against such a 

 conclusion, since we can now produce at least three individuals of the 

 family name of Kadphises. Thus — 



Fig. 13, copied from a drawing in M. Court's memoir, has the 

 legend ZA0OY KAAA*E2 (ov) XOPAnoy ; while on the gold coins, we 

 have already adduced numerous instances of mo, OOHMO, or ooKmo, 

 attached to the same. We shall take some future occasion to place 

 all these varieties under review together ; meantime the French ships 

 of the season will, it is hoped, enable us to profit by the disquisitions 

 of the learned of Paris, on this highly interesting question. 



Figs. 15, 16. Small coins found by Mr. Masson in 1835, at 

 Beghrdm. The execution is neat and evidently Bactrian, but the 

 names are defaced. The caduceus of fig. 15 is to be met with on 

 the coins of Menander, and particularly on those of Mayos. 



It must not be supposed that Mr. Masson's labours during the 

 past year have been productive of no other novel results than those 

 above mentioned. He has brought to light many new types of the 

 Mithriac series, which I shall reserve for a future plate ; besides a very 

 numerous series of what he has correctly designated Indo-Sassanian 

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