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as this." If, then it appears to the Society, that I have been un- 

 justly treated by the Keview they have been pleased to quote, — I 

 trust they will make me amends by publishing this letter in their 

 journal. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Tour obedt. Servant, 

 Edwakd B. Eastwich, Professor E. I. College. 



In a letter received from Major Cunningham, shortly before his 

 departure for England in April last, he announces the discovery of 

 several new coins, " of which the most remarkable is," he says, " an 

 Indian coin of Sapor. The name is written distinctly. The coin 

 is a silver one, of the Kabulian type of Indo Sassanians. I 

 presume that the coin must have belonged to Sapor the second, 

 whose long reign was so successful against the Eomans in the 

 West." 



He further mentions a Gold Kanerki with the reverse of 

 OPAArNO and a bad duplicate of the hitherto unique tetradrachm 

 of Diodotus. 



Both Major C. and Mr. E. Thomas, on close examination of the fac- 

 simile of the Thaneswar inscription translated by Baboo Eajendralal 

 Mittra, in a paper published at p. 673 of vol. XXII of our Journal, pro- 

 nounce it to be " beyond all doubt a middle age one— that is," says 

 Major C. " the forms of the letters are those of the 11th and 12th 

 centuries. I read the date %\t* 1190 S. or 1133 A. D.' The Baboo 

 professed only to read the inscription as it stood on the fac-simile 

 before him : it must be admitted that the character in which it is 

 written is a truer clue to the date than can be given by the best 

 reading of the figures representing the date. But we shall short- 

 ly publish the fac-simile with a view to inviting further discussion of 

 the true date of the inscription. 



The Stacy collection of coins has been catalogued and valued by 

 Mr. E. Thomas at Mussooree and has been offered to the British 

 Museum. 



It is gratifying to find that the N. "W. Government has favourably 

 entertained a project, by Mr. Thomas, for publishing in a series the 

 texts of all Persian Historical works on Hindustan. 



