ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 49 



Class II Seleuckl Kings of Syria, ^c: — 



Four gold staters of Antiochus I., two with the very rare ty^a of the head of 

 Bucephalus. 



A tetradraclun of Antiochus I. of the samo type, with a very fine portrait. 



Six gold staters of Antiochus II., two of whicii bear the portrait of Diodotus, the first 

 King of Bactrla, who thus acknowledges his Syrian over-lord. 



A gold stater of the satrap Andragoras, of Parthia (?), of about the time of Alexander. 



A silver tetradrachm of the sauie satrap, struck in a Greek city. 



Class III. — Earlier Kings of Bactria and India. 



Three gold staters of Diodotus. 



Two gold staters of Euthydemus of remarkable beauty, and five tetradrachms of 

 different types, and great varieties of portrait, in consequence of which some numismatists 

 attribute one of the types to a second king of tlie same name. Also three specimens of 

 the remarkable nickel coinage bearing the name of Euthydemus. 



Four tetradrachms of Demetrius, one of which is unique. Demetrius is supposed to be 

 mentioned by Chaucer as " The great Emetrius, the King of Ind," in the Knightes Tale, 

 a story which the English poet derived from Bo3caccio, who professed to have taken it 

 from "una antichissima storia." [Cunningham, A'mn. Chron. 1869, p. 151.] 



Two very remarkable tetradrachms of Antimachus. 



A tetradrachm of Pantaleou, of whom the National Collection had until now only 

 nickel and bronze coins. 



Two tetradrachms of Agathocles, in fine condition. 



A tetradrachm of the same king, with the head of Antiochus I., of great rarity. 



A tetradrachm of Eucratides, with the heads of Heliocles and Laodice, of extreme 

 rarity. 



A series of fine tetradrachms of Eucratides. One of these is of great i-arlty, and a 

 most remarkable specimen of Grseco-Bactrian art; the king is represented with his back 

 to the spectator, showing his bare shoulders. There is also a very rare hemidrachm of 

 Eucratides, which has on the reverse p.n Arian-Pali inscription, instead of the usual Gixek 

 one, transferred to the obverse. 



Two fine tetradrachms of Heliocles. 



A unique bronze coin of Peucolaus, a king not hitherto known. 



Two unique coins of Theophilus, one silver and the other bronze, of whom no other 

 coins are known. 



A unique drachm of Epander. 



A unique didrachm of Antialcides, Avith the remarkable type of Zeus standing beside 

 an elephant, on the head of which iMke has alighted. 



Three rare didrachms of Philoxcnus. 



Two rare didrachms of Diomedes. 



A very rare hemidrachm of Nicias, of whom the National Collection previously had no 

 silver money. 



Three rare didrachms of Strato. 



A hemidrachm of Agathocleia, with a good portrait of that queen. 



A unique gold stater of Menander, and a long series of silver coins of the same 

 monarch, one of which, a didrachm, showing a bare-shouldered bust of the king Avielding 

 a spear, is very rare. 



Three bronze coins of INIenander, two of which are unique and the third very rare. 



A rare tetradrachm of Apollodotus, and a long series of smaller silver coins. 



A rare didrachm of Arcliebius. 



Rare didrachms of Hippostratus, Artemidorus, and Ilermaeus, and a unique hemi- 

 drachm of the last king. 



Class IV. — Later Kings of Bactria and India. 



A didrachm of Maues of a type new to the British Museum. 



Two unique didrachms of Azes, and a long series of other silver coins of the same 



Pour silver and two bronze unique coins of Azilises, besides a long series of silver 

 money. 



A unique bronze coin of Arsaces. 



Of the same line as Arsaces, Gondophares must be mentioned, of whom there is a 

 series of bronze coins; he is spoken of in a very early Church document, " the Acts of 

 St. Thomas,'' as couverted by that apostle, and has been identified with Gaspard or Cas- 

 par, one of the Magi. 



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