82 A. F. R. Hoernle— Copper coins of Ahdagases and KadpJiises II. [May, 



Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle exhibited four copper coins of Abda- 

 gases and Kadpliises II. with new legends in Bactrian characters. He 



said: — 



The two Kadphises coins are out of a lot of 422 copper coins, 

 found recently on the Kalka-Kasauli road, in the territory of the Maha- 

 raia of Patiala. The whole of the coins was transmitted for examin- 

 ation to Mr. C. J. Rodgers, Honorary Numismatist to the Grovernment 

 of India, in Amritsar. He found among them about 40 coius of Kanishkar 

 of well-known types. The rest were coins of Kadphises II., all of them 

 of the ordinary type, though of different dies, except the two, now 

 exhibited. These two, Mr. Rodgers noticed, bore Bactrian legends on 

 the reverse side, quite diiferent from the usual one. He sent them 

 down to me for confirmation. One of them undoubtedly shows an 

 entirely different and new reading. Only one-half of the legend, on 

 the right hand marginal semi-circle, is legible. It reads as follows : — 



{Jiegodha)sa ov {hegosa)sa apratalia{tasa). 

 The portion enclosed in brackets is not quite distinct. It is quite 

 possible that hegodhasa which seems to give no sense is really tradatasa. 

 But aprata is perfectly distinct ; and tasa fairly so. One would expect 

 apratihatasa, and it is possible that that is really the reading, as the 

 upper part of the apparent akshara fa is rather rubbed. In any case 

 the word apratihcvtasa forms quite certainly a part of the legend, and it 

 occurs in that place of the coin which usually shows the words hima- 

 hapigasa (see Br. Mus. Cat., pi. xxv., fig. 12). The Bactrian letters of 

 these two sets of words could not easily be mistaken for one another. 

 The leo-end, therefore, on this coin, is certainly a new one. In its entirety 

 it probably reads : — 



Maharajasa rajadirajasa tradatasa aprafihatasa. 

 The term apratihata has hitherto never been found on any of the 

 coins of Kadphises II. It occurs, however, on the coins of Gondophares 

 and Raujabala, who must have been nearly contemporary with him. 

 A variety of it also occurs on the earlier coins of Lysias, Artemidorus 

 and Philoxenus. 



With regard to the other Kadphises coin, I am not quite so certain. 

 Nearly the whole of the Bactrian legend is obliterated. There are 

 only three letters that admit of being read at all. They stand in 

 the middle of the right-hand margin, near the bull's head, where 

 ordinarily the letters of the word himahapigasa come in. They now 

 seem to read sa maya^ but they are slightly mutilated and rubbed ; they 

 stand exactly in the place of himalca, and on the whole the probability is 



