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Azfls. 
II. Horseman and Pallas type. 
Copper, narrow, oblong, ’85 long, '45 broad. Wfc. 47 gr. [Rawlins.} 
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Remarkable for its shape, which makes the coin look at first siglit 
like a fragment, and for the distinct Brahmi, or old Nagari, legend on 
the obverse. The legend appears to be intended for mahardjdtiraja. 
The ma (at r. lower corner), and ti raja are plainly legible. 
Gardner ( B . M. Cat., p. 90), when describing the corrupt semi- 
barbarous, billon coins of Azes, with horseman obverse, and tnrreted 
personification of city reverse, has the note :—“ On most of these is 
an appearance of various Indian [scil. Brahmi] letters in the obverse 
field which are not here inserted, it being doubtful whether they are 
not mere blunders,” 
On the coin now described the Brahmi legend runs round the 
margin, and is intended as the equivalent of the Kharosthi legend on 
the reverse, which includes rajasa Ayasa. I cannot read the word preced¬ 
ing rajasa. 
A rudely executed coin. The metal seems to be copper, without 
admixture of silver. 
II. 
IMPERIAL KUSAN. 
III. Kaniska. 
Large, thick, copper, diameter '95. Wt. 246 gr. [Rawlins.] 
This coin resembles that depicted in B. M. Cat., PI. XXVII, 5, 
but here only three characters are visible, and they look like Semitic 
characters. Probably, like the partly similar characters on the B. M. 
specimen, they are to be read from outside as [N]ANA. But the 
characters on this coin have lost all resemblance to Greek letters, and it 
is therefore worth while to reproduce them. 
IV. Huvjska. 
Gold dinar. Diameter '8. Wt. 110 gr. [Rawlins.] 
Obv. The ordinary B form, that is to say, bust of king to 1. with jewelled 
helmet, of pointed shape. (See Num. Cliron. for 1892, p. 98.) 
Rev. Throned goddess (Ardokhso). 
This coin is remarkable only by reason of its reverse. The 
goddesses on the reverse of Huviska’s coins are ordinarily standing. The 
only instance of a seated goddess reverse yet published is that of Nano 
seated on a lion ( Num. Chron. for 1892, PI. 
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The coin now published presents, I think, the earliest example of 
the throned goddess device, which continued to be used by Samudra 
Gupta and by Candra Gupta II, in his early issues. 
