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APPENDIX D

INVENTORY LIST OF COINS FOUND OR

PURCHASED

PREPARED FROM NOTES OF

S. W. BUSHELL, M. D., C. M. G.,

AND

E. J. RAPSON, M.A.

PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

L COINS FROM TOGUJAI, MOJI.

(See above, pp. Ito sqq.)

a. 78 Muhammadan copper coins of the type described by Dr. Hoernle, Report on C.-A. ant., i. pp. 32 sqq., and tentatively attributed by him to ' Sulayman Khagan'. They seem to bear the name of the Caliph Al-Musta`sim, 1242-1258 A.D. See Pl. XC, Nos. 45, 46 (both belonging to Dr. Hoernle's second variety, comp. his Pl. I, fig. 3r).

9 Muhammadan copper coins, probably of Muhammad Arslan Khan (see Hoernle, loc. cit., i. p. 30).

3 small copper coins not identified.

  1.  28 Muhammadan copper coins, apparently mostly of Sulaymân Khâgan'; see Pl. XC, No. 47 (cf. Hoernle, PI. I, fig. 31).

  2.  19 Chinese copper coins, small, with the legend Ch'ienyüan chung pao, of Chien-yüan period (758-759 A. D.).

4 Chinese copper coins, with same legend, large. 12 non-Chinese copper coins, not identified.

II. COINS PURCHASED AT YÔTKAN.
(See above, pp. 203 sqq.)

b.

a. Copper coins purchased at site, Oct. i6, 'goo.

r coin of Kujula-kara-kadphises (comp. Cunningham, .Numism. Chronicle, 1892, Pl. IV, 9); see Pl. LXXXIX, No. r. 2 coins of Kaniska ; probably Brit. Mus. Cat., No. 52.

I Chinese coin unknown to Chinese numismatists ; first

character yü   second perhaps fun; see Pl. LXXXIX,
No. 5, and above, p. 205.

I Chinese coin with the legend Hou-ch`üan (comp. Lockhart,

i. p. 14, Nos. 95-102); see PI. LXXXIX, No. II.

2 Chinese coins with legend Wu-chu.

26 Chinese coins of Chien-yüan period (758-759 A. D. ); see Pl. XC, Nos. z8, 29.

5 Chinese coins of Ta-li period (766-779 A. D.) ; see P1. XC, No. 32.

26 coins undetermined, owing to very poor preservation; several among them may be small Sino-Kharosthi pieces.

Copper coins purchased at Yôtkan, Nov. 27, 1900. 2 Sino-Kharosthi coins, small.

I Chinese coin with legend Wu-chu.

9 Chinese coins of Chien-yüan period (758-759 A.D.), large.

4 Chinese coins of Chien-yüan period, small.

I Chinese coin of Ta-li period (766-779 A. D.), small.

2 Chinese coins of Tang dynasty, undeciphered.

4 Chinese coins of Sung dynasty, periods Yüan-fêng (1078-85 A. D.) and Yüan-yu (1086-93 A. D.) ; see PI. XC, Nos. 36, 37.

I Muhammadan coin, probably of Muhammad Arslân. 7 Muhammadan coins, small, uncertain.

c. Copper coins purchased at Ybtkan, April 28, Igo'.

I Chinese coin with legend rai yuan lung pao, of type first issued by Kao tsu—and by his successors for nearly a hundred years. See Pl. LXXXIX, No. 24.

17 Chinese coins of Ch'ien-yüan period (758-759 A. D.), several fragmentary.

3 Chinese coins of Ta-li period (766-779 A. D.). 2 Chinese coins, illegible.

I unperforated coin, illegible.