440 Notice of some Unpublished Coins [No. 162. 



No. 9. — A round copper coin, of middle size, of good make, and in 

 good order. 



Obverse. The same as No. 8. 



Reverse. A full length female figure to the right, clad in a long robe, with 

 a short tunic reaching to the waist ; the left hand supporting a cornucopia, 

 and the right resting on the hip ; the head covered, and surrounded by 

 a halo. Corrupt Greek legend to the left, APAOXPO ; to the right, 

 the usual Indo- Scythian monograph. 



No. 10. — Essentially the same as the preceding; but the figure is 

 looking to the left, and holding out a wreath in the out- stretched right 

 hand. 



No. 11. — Precisely the same as No. 9: but the figure faces to the left. 



The title of KOPANO on these Indo-Scythian coins, which follows 

 the names of Kadaphes, Oerki and Kanerki, has not yet been satisfac- 

 torily explained. It certainly cannot mean king, as we have Zatlos on 

 the coins of Kadaphes, and Rao-Nano-Rao on the coins of his successors. 

 In a paper on the coinage of Kashmir published in the Numismatic Chro- 

 nicle of London in 1843, I suggested that it was derived from the Greek 

 KOPQNI2, with curling horns; and that the Arabic Zul-karnain 

 pointed to that derivation. In this sense Koran would mean Alexander 

 the Great ; and the Princes who take that title would claim descent 

 from Zul-karnain. XOPAN CV and KOPCO might then stand for 

 KOPANov 2-yyyEvouc, " the kinsman of Koran ;" and this interpre- 

 tation offers a plausible reading for the Greek legend of the earlier coins 

 of Kozonlo Kadphizes, on which we find BA2IAEQ2 2THP02 

 2Y EPMAIOY, which I interpret as " (Coin) of the king, the preser- 

 ver (Kadphizes) the kinsman of Hermseus." I have since found that the 

 Mogul author Sanangsetzen declares, that the Tartar prince Kanikia 

 bore the title of Prince of Mercy. It is probable therefore that Kanishka's 

 title of Korano is derived from the Sanscrit karuna, mercy. This 

 however still leaves unexplained the letters following Koran on the coins 

 of Kadaphes and Kadphizes. On the former the title is XOPAN CV 

 (and not XOPANOY as usually given). On the latter, it is KOPCO. 



The happy conjecture made by Mr. James Prinsep in 1833, that the 

 Kanerki of the coins was the great Buddhist Prince ^Kanishka of 

 Kashmir, has been amply confirmed by the Bauddha figures, emblems, 

 and legends on the coins which I have just described. The Honorable 



