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possesses so many attributes in common with them, invariably has 

 this accompaniment. Considering that all the Bactrian family have 

 the same, it would perhaps be better to place Kadphisks as the last 

 of the Pehlevi series, immediately before Kanerkos*, and he will thus 

 follow most conveniently the Kadaphes choranos described in my last 

 paper. Indeed, as the word Kadphises never occurs except in conjunc- 

 tion with some other name, asoOHMO, oroOKMO,it may be read as a 

 patronymic appellation of the family — the descendants of Kadaphes. 

 Of the gold coins of Kadphises, two varieties only were hitherto known 

 to us. By singular good fortune, Colonel Smith has met with a third, 

 and with duplicates of the former two, in the common bazar of Bena- 

 res ! His agent purchased the three, which are engraved at the top of 

 Plate XXXVIII. from a shroff, who said they were sold to him two 

 years ago by a Marhatta pilgrim to the holy city, in whose family 

 they must doubtless have been hoarded for many centuries, for their 

 character precludes any suspicion of their genuineness. Of fig. 2, I 

 have since found a duplicate in Keramat Ali's last despatch to myself : 

 fig. 3, is a duplicate of the one Dr. Martin! extracted from the 



* They must have been nearly contemporaneous. Lieut. Cunningham tells 

 me, he has just obtained 163 Kanerki and Kadphises copper coins, which were 

 dug up in a village near Benares. The proportions of each type were as follows s 

 Kadphises and bull, 12 ; Kanerki, 60 ; elephant-rider, 48 ; running or dancing 

 figure on reverse, 13; couch-lounger, 13; cross-legged, 5 ; squatted figure, 8 ; 

 and undistinguishable, 4. In the collections from the Panjab, the ill-executed 

 descendants of the bull reverse predominate. 



t The May No. of the Asiatic Journal of London contains an announce- 

 ment of the safe arrival of this coin and of the collector himself, in Italy. Col. 

 Tod on his travels happily found, and translated the following notice from the 

 Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Rome, which our readers will read with 

 avidity, although in fact it adds nothing new to our information. 



" Signor Honigberger has returned from a voyage in the east, laden with 

 an abundant antiquarian harvest of most important medals. Among the more 

 remarkable are a large one of Demetrius ; another, very beautiful, and in fine 

 preservation, of Euthydemus ; and a third, extremely perfect, of Hormusdas 

 of the Sassanian dynasty : all three, it would appear, hitherto unknown (incites). 

 But what seems to us to merit still more consideration, is a similar monument, 

 with the name of a king Kadfise written in Greek characters. Signor 

 Honigberger discovered it in the vicinity of Kabul ; where, in a small wood- 

 en case, amongst a quantity of ashes and earth, he found a little silver box 

 containing the above-mentioned coin, together with a blackish (or dark-colour- 

 ed) Nerastra (stone in the form of an egg), with some small bones, apparently 

 those of a child. Upon the medal is the bust of an aged man, of no very noble 

 expression, bald-headed, in a simple garb, and holding in his right hand an im- 

 plement resembling a hammer. Around it is a very distinct inscription, in 

 Greek characters, KAA*I2EC BA2IAETC ; and less-well-preserved, other cha- 

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