Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth centBC., to AD621including the series in the Britis Museum . rof. Percy Gardner, Litt. D., pp. 120,121, aiid plate xxv, 1 and 2. These coins are bilingual, Avritten inGreek on one side, and in the North-Tudian alphabet, called the Aryan-Pal i, on tlie otlier. Two specimens of their copper (not iron) coins, of different types,were procured by Sir T. Douglas Porsyth at Kliotan, in ChineseTurkistan {Journal of thx Boijal Geographical Society, vol. xlvii. p. 12),and published by Prof. Percy Gardner (in the Numismatic Chronicle^1871), N. S., vol. xix, pp. 2
Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth centBC., to AD621including the series in the Britis Museum . rof. Percy Gardner, Litt. D., pp. 120,121, aiid plate xxv, 1 and 2. These coins are bilingual, Avritten inGreek on one side, and in the North-Tudian alphabet, called the Aryan-Pal i, on tlie otlier. Two specimens of their copper (not iron) coins, of different types,were procured by Sir T. Douglas Porsyth at Kliotan, in ChineseTurkistan {Journal of thx Boijal Geographical Society, vol. xlvii. p. 12),and published by Prof. Percy Gardner (in the Numismatic Chronicle^1871), N. S., vol. xix, pp. 274—281), with a partial decipherment of theAryan-Pali legend of the largest of the two. (1799) The smaller specimen lias on the Obverse. A horse to right, of non-Chinese stylo. Inscription entirely worn out. ^ Pan kin. A corruptecl imitation of (117). (l7.)Da) The larger specimen is Liliugual, as follows: A horse to right,similar to pre-ceding. Inscrip-tion in Aryan-Pali from rightto left, beginnini^above the horse,on the left: which reads : Afdhanijma rajadirajasa In the centre an oldform of ^ , for money, surroundedby the legend ; thewhole within a bor-der of labyrinthinepattern. ^ ? ? m — m n m ? ? Tchung yh Hang sze ? ? worth one ounce four tchus. These sole representatives of a coinage issued by the Yueh-ti for their intercoursewith the Chinese, then advanced east and west of the Tsung-ling mountains, suggestthe probability of other issues still undiscovered. KOUND-MU^EV. 395 (h) Ii;ON CUKUENCY OV SllUU (SzK-TonuEx). During tlie troubles which accompanied the full of the usurper WangMang, in the first jearKeng-shc |g ^^% 23, Knng-sun Shiih /^J^^x \)^took possession of Tcheng-tio ^ ^, the chief city of Shuh §5 (still thecapital city of Sze-tckuen), proclaimed himstdf Governor d|;^ of Yh-ichoa^ jjl (name of that region at the time). He made himself successively King of Shah, in 2i, and Tcheug Tl j^ •^;, i.
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