No. 56.-1905.] COPPER MASSAS. ' 405 
Variation, — These coins vary fully as much as do the last 
in every way but one, viz., no variation presents a different 
reading from the correct one, unless one end of series I, can 
be read ne and the other end Nai. 
Series I. consists of a sequence of variations of this letter 
Ne, [1] shows a simple letter with no additions ; [2] has a 
Blight tick added to the left-hand top corner; [3] a larger tick 
added to the middle of the horizontal stroke ; [4] a sloping 
stroke from the right-hand top corner upwards and to the left; 
(5) the same, more pronounced ; and (6) a horizontal line 
above and parallel to the original one, and connected to it on 
the right by a production of the right hand perpendicular 
stroke. 
Between each link of this chain there are many gradations, 
each too small to recognize separately, but aggregating in the 
very considerable difference between [1] and [6]. 
Series II. consists of variations of the letter Bhu. These 
Tire not so marked as the variations in series I. nor do they 
run in so nice a sequence ; but they are, I think, worth 
figuring. Nos. [7] and [8] are rough, rather ill-struck speci- 
^ mens. Nos. [9], [10], and [11] form a sequence, [9] being 
one letter, consonant and vowel ; [11] consonant and vowel 
separate ; and [10] intermediate between them. 
The gradations of ne from [1] to [6] and of Bhu from [7] 
to [11] do not run quite conjunctly; but this might be altered 
by an examination of a larger number of specimens, which 
would enable more perfect series to be selected. As it is 
taking the first four of series I. combined with the first three 
of series 11. to form a type (A), and the last two of either 
series to form a type (B), forty-nine of my sixty-four speci- 
mens fall in type (A) and eleven in type(B) ; this leaves only 
four exceptions, which are of mixed type. 
This looks as though the several gradations of Bhu and ne 
could be proved to go hand in hand, were a large enough 
number of specimens available for examination. [12] is 
^iven to show the hu. This is the only coin I have seen in 
which so much of this cramped letter is visible. 
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