1897.] V. A. Smith —Numismatic Notes and Novelties. 5 
very base gold. The Bodleian coins, Nos. 741-746 (Bhadra, etc.), also 
appear to he of silver. 
It thus appears that at present Cunningham’s 13 types are known 
to occur in the following metals : — 
Gold. Silver. Brass. Copper. 
Nos. 1-13. Nos. 9, 12, Nos. 2, 9, 10, 12, Nos. 2 
and 13. and 13. and 5. 
The gold coins of the Later Great Kusans, Class B, described and 
figured by Cunningham are all of the full dinar size. 
VII. This is a beautiful specimen, in Mr. Rawlins’ possession, of a 
minute gold coin of Pa Saha, apparently one-fourth of a dinar 
(diameter *55, wt. 16 gr.), which corresponds to Cunningham’s No. 8 
of Pra Saha , except that in*the new coin the sign for r is wanting. 
Mr. L. White King found Cherat in the Peshawar District a very 
good hunting ground for the Later Kusan coins, and Mr. Rawlins 
seems able to obtain them readily in the Jhelam District. 
The most interesting discovery of Mr. Rawlins in this department 
is the coin now to be described. 
VIII. Brass, medium thickness, well executed, diameter *8. Wt. 62 gr. 
[Rawlins.] 
IX 
Obv. Basana, Hu, Palcalhdlii, exactly as No. 13 of Plate in Num. Chron. 
for 1893. 
XIII 
Rev. Flaming altar, without attendants, as in No. 89 of Plate > ibid. 
When I first saw a drawing of this coin combining a common 
Kus^n obverse with a rare Sassanian reverse, I thought it must be a 
dealer’s forgery. But Mr. Rawlins informs me that he obtained it 
thickly covered with dirt, under circumstances which preclude all sus¬ 
picion. It is certainly not, as I at first suspected, a dealer’s forgery. 
It is possible, as a friend suggests, that the fire-altar reverse may have 
been double-struck over the ordinary throned goddess reverse, and he 
fancied that he could see traces of the original impression, but I 
am not able to verify the conjecture, though it is probably correct. 
The coin, as we now have it, is certainly ancient and genuine, and 
forms an interesting link between the Kusan and Sassanian coinages. 
It seems to be the numismatic memorial of the fact that King 
Hormazd II of Persia (A. D. 301-310), who called himself “ King 
of the Kusans,” married a daughter of the Kusan king of Kabul, who 
was sent to his court with costly presents and a splendid escort. 
Probably, as Cunningham suggests, the matrimonial alliance was the 
