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their features ; and no data are furnished on which we may fix the dynasty 

 to which they may have belonged. Setting aside the curious form of 

 these coins, their designs are well executed, and the obverse legends 

 expressed in pure Greek characters. This circumstance induces me to 

 insert the series here, and I should consider the dynasty a distinct one, 

 perhaps under nearly the same circumstances as the preceding. The 

 consideration of the coins with the legend BA2IAE.Q2 iiantaaeontoS made 

 me at first hesitate whether to regard ArAQOKAEOTS as a name, or, an 

 epithet; as both descriptions of coins, from the coincidence of obverse and 

 reverse, seem to refer to the same prince. A series of uncouthformed coins 

 I have included under this series, from the agreement of the obverses : 

 the reverses exhibit elephants. These Leonine coins have no legends, 

 but figures, which may be their monograms. 



Class, Grecian — Series No. 4. Coins of the Nysaan Dynasty. 



We now come to a series of coins, which it is gratifying to identify as 

 belonging to Greek princes, whose seat of empire was at the ancient city 

 of Nysa, or Dionysiopolis, founded agreeably to Sanscrit and Greek re- 

 cords by Bacchus or Dionysius. Hercules, the tutelary Bactrian deity, is 

 represented on some of these coins, and a horseman, alike a Bactrian em- 

 blem, on others. These coins, with respect to their type and execution, 

 exhibit many incongruities : on many, while the bust is well executed, 

 and the features well delineated, the Greek characters of the legends are 

 very corrupt. Happily, the Pehlevi legends are generally fair and dis- 

 tinct. The princes of this dynasty would seem to have been numerous, 

 probably of more than one family ; it is to be hoped, we shall be enabled 

 ultimately to identify all of them : at present we have three if not four 

 princesof the same name EPMAI02; a SATHPHErAC ; and an ynaa*eppo2*. 

 We have the coins of others, the legends illegible. 

 Class, Grecian — unarranged Coins. 



These coins I have not referred to distinct series, as it is probable 

 that legible specimens will enable us to refer them to some of the pre- 

 ceding ones. The coins of EPMAI02 have a similarity in nomenclature 

 with those of the Nyssean dynasty, but it will be noticed, that the qua- 

 drangular form is not adopted with the latter — another of the coins has 

 the figure of Hercules, and another, the epithet MErAAor, the former a 

 Bactrian and Nysoean emblem, the latter only observed on the coins of 

 Eucratides I. 



Among the supplementary coins which were not found at Beghram, 

 and are not in my possession, the coins with the horseman on the 

 obverse are certainly Nysaean ; on the reverses is the figure of Ceres ; 

 these coins are remarkable for their fair circular form, the pure Greek 



* We follow the ms. : but the second of these names is evidently SftTHP 

 MEfAS, see further on. — Ed. 



