The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

XI.
BILINGUAL COINS OF BUKHA'RA'.
AT the Third Congress of Orientalists, which assembled in
St. Petersbourg, in 1876, M. Pierre Lerch announced that
he had succeeded in deciphering the enigmatical letters,
embodying the title of Bukhara Khudddt, found on certain
coins of that locality.
This discovery was reported, in brief terms, by Mr.
Brandreth, in the (London) " Academy " (No. 229, page
315), and was followed by a more amply explanatory
letter from the author in a subsequent number of that
periodical.
As my
attention had been directed to these obscure
legends so long ago as 1858, 1 and as I had endeavoured to
keep myself well-up to the knowledge of the day, I
thought it right to put upon record the substance of my
independent investigations, 2 without awaiting the possibly
delayed publication of the full report of the Proceedings
of the Congress.
These latter documents were made available to the
public some time after April,
1879 : and I am now anxious
to reduce into a combined form the leading results of our
separate studies.
1
Prinsep's Essays on " Indian Antiquities," edited by Edward Thomas,
London (Murray), 1858, vol. ii. p. 116.
2
Indian Antiquary, edited by James Burgess, Bombay, 1879, page 2G9.