526 On Sassanian Coins. [No. 6. 



TTWT Tff — ^*lif<^ 

 Raja Pam ? Udayaditya. 



The Reverse surface presents a mere blank, retaining only slight 

 traces of ever having received an impression. 



As connected with the general subject of Indo-Sassanian Numisma- 

 tics, your readers may not be uninterested to learn the progress made 

 of late years in Europe in the decipherment of Pehlvi Legends, in so 

 far as concerns the interpretation of the writings on the Sassanian 

 Coins exhumed from the Topes of the Punjab and Afghanistan, which 

 are moreover so closely identified with the progress of our Journal, 

 whose pages contain the earliest notice of these Antiquities, and whose 

 plates display a still unrivalled series of delineations of the various 

 relics disinterred by Messrs. Ventura and Court. 



PI. XXI. Vol. III. Fig. 8. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 

 Obverse in Pehlvi Characters — 



behind the head, oj^l Increase 



in front of the face, 





literally, 1 <j^yt 



^Icjla. <UJ| {ykc Abdullah-i-Haziman, or Abdullah the son of Hazim. 



Margin. *^1 +~» in Kufic letters. 



Reverse. On the left, »■=*-*.& ^J*^ (A. H.) 64. 



o 

 on the right, jj* Merv. 



PL XXI. Fig. 10. Obv. in front of the face, a Scythic ? legend. 



Margin. ^\f%f?rf^T $WPT tpCfl^ 

 possible variants ^ IT ^ 



(continued) ^f^frRi TT^T ^nf^cr 

 variants ^ ^ 3T 



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Reverse. Left <-&£ ei**i3 <Ju» 



Bight &** ejlwi^L e)j«& 



The Coin engraved as No. 6, PL XXV. Vol. III. J. A. S. B. is so 

 closely identified with the Tope Indo-Sassanian specimens, that it may 

 be as well to complete this portion of the subject, by giving the latest 

 reading of its Pehlvi legends. 



