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The inscription is as follows : 



The Secretary stated that the character of the inscription was the 

 10th century Sanskrit, and its language, Newari. The words were 

 <s, TfTTO "ft<r *r?F which literally means " not even a dam," i. e. no 

 price whatever was charged for the image on which the inscription 

 is recorded, or, in other words, it was a free gift. It was probably 

 dedicated by a Nepalese Hindu. 



The Secretary then exhibited to the meeting a rare tetradrachma of 

 Antimachus Theos. It was in beautiful preservation, and appeared 

 from the execution of the head and the legends to be undoubtedly 

 genuine. A figure of this type of coin was some time ago published 

 in the " Numismatic Chronicle" Fig. 7, plate iv. Vol. II, N. S., and 

 noticed in the Journal of the Eoyal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, by Mr. E. Thomas, but as it was taken from a cast, a figure 

 from an undoubted original will, it is believed, prove interesting to 

 numismatologists. This is in preparation and will be given with a 

 future number of the Proceedings. The coin has been purchased for 

 the Society's cabinet for Rs. 100. It has on the obverse — 



The head of the king facing the right, filleted, with the legend 

 AIOAOT * * before the face, and SOTHP02 behind it. 



Reverse. Jupiter in the act of hurling the thunderbolt, with an 

 iEgis on the left forearm, which is stretched forward. His left leg is 

 advanced to the left, and near it is an eagle with a chaplet of flowers 

 over it. Legend, BA2IAEYONT02 ANTIMAXOY ©EOY. Mono- 

 gram A. N. 



The Secretary also exhibited a coin of Azelisas which had been 

 placed at his disposal for the purpose by Mr. Grote. It was a silver 

 didrachma with the ordinary obverse, but a perfectly new reverse. On 

 the obverse, it has the king mounted on a horse facing the right. 



Legend, BA2IAEQ2 BA2IAEQN MEIAAOY AZIAT^OY. Mo- 



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 nogram, s\ t 



Reverse. Female figure to the front standing on a lotus ; the left 

 hand rests on the waist, and the right over the stomach, holding some- 

 thing ; on each side is a lotus stalk rising as high as the waist and 



