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⁹⁸ See HQ, Vol. xii, pp. 124. V. S. Wakankar has published the eye-copy of a Brāhmī inscription of the 3rd century A. D. discovered in Egypt and now preserved in the Cairo Museum (Bharati Kala Bhawan Patrika, Ujjain, No. 7). A hoard of Kuṣāṇa gold coins (of Kadphises II, Kaniṣka I, Huviṣka and Vāsudeva) has been found at the monastery at Dabra Dāmmo in Abyssinia (A. Mordini, ‘Gli Aurei Kushāna del Convento di Dabra Dāmmo’ in Convento internazionale di studi Etiopici, Rome, 1959, pp. 249-54). Coins of Kaniṣka have been unearthed in Scandinavia and Wales (JRAS, 1912, p. 672).