1852.] Northern Antiquities. 127 



Among other specimens of minor value Col. Stacey's cabinet con- 

 tains : 



1st. Two (mixed Silver and Copper) Coins of Khusrii Malik No. 

 cliii. — having the imperfect imitation of the Bull Nandi in Toghra 

 on the Obverse, with the King's name prefaced by the title of &) j &)\ ^ 

 on the Reverse, 



2nd. Fourteen Coins of the common Type, No. cliv. (PI. xx. Fig. 

 16, Ariana Antiqua). 



3rd. One specimen of No. civ. 



Col. Stacey's collection is likewise rich in Khwarizim Coins, which 

 have been forwarded to me with the Ghaznavi series. However as I 

 do not propose to take up this class of money at present, I confine my 

 notice to a single Coin, which is remarkable as bearing the name 

 of a new Mint, Zemindawur. The piece is of mixed Silver and Cop- 

 per, in weight 48 grains. The Obverse and Reverse read through, 

 but singular to say the marginal legends being completed thus 

 ±+si* J&Ijj! Reverse. u i^\ j Ui<>Jl 3U *ia^l ejlkUi Obverse. 



The inscription, in the Reverse Circular Area, commences the word 

 ^x*) and the obverse centre gives the completion of the name jy* 



On the Oriental character of certain Northern Antiquities. — By 

 George Btjist, Esq. LL. D. 



I some time since received from Mr. Chalmers, of Auldbar, three 

 copies of his splendid work on the Cross Stones of Forfarshire, one for 

 my own use, the other two to be disposed of as I thought best. I 

 have given one of them to the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society, and cannot better bestow the other than on the oldest and 

 most distinguished learned body amongst us, the Bengal Asiatic Society. 

 The subject treated of by Mr. Chalmers, is, as will presently appear, 

 decidedly Oriental, and the remarks I am about to make may probably 

 have some influence in stimulating to enquiry on the subject : perhaps 

 this may for the first time make some of your readers aware of the 

 existence of a much closer relationship betwixt Oriental and Hyperbo- 

 rean Antiquities than they might be altogether prepared for. 



