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cidence between these coins and those of Herm^eus I. which deserve to be pointed 

 out. The figure on the obverse, I could wish had been a male, (but fear it is not,) 

 as its position agrees with that of Hercules on the coins alluded to. The mono- 

 grammic characters agree on both, or nearly so, and the style of the Greek cha- 

 racters is precisely the same. Thus in the coins of the preceding series, we have 

 noted the epithet 2HTHP02, has the O in the final syllable ; in those of Hermjeus 

 I, we first note the substitution of □, and it is continued in those before us. If the 

 letters 2V be the epoch, we have 74 probably of the Nyssean dynasty. These would 

 seem to require other sovereigns before Herm^eus I. and if it be necessary, our 

 conjectures may supply them. 



Herm^eus III. 

 Fig. 24, Obverse. Bust, with diadem and fillets. Greek legend, portion legible 

 BASIAEnS 2 THP02 EPM .... 

 Reverse. "Figure of Hercules, with club. Legend Pehlevi. 

 Fig. 25, Obverse. Bust, as preceding — Greek legend — the characters visible, con- 

 fused from the use of dots or points at their angles. 



These are two specimens from sixty copper coins of the same size and type in 

 my possession, besides which I have seventy-six smaller ones. These coins display a 

 decline in style and execution, although in neither point of view absolutely bad. 

 The smaller specimens are much inferior, many of them even wretched. The dif- 

 ference in size between the dies and the coins, here also prevents us from obtain- 

 ing any one specimen with the entire legend, but the letters EPM of the name 

 distinct on a few, allow us to read the whole EPMAIOT as the preceding ones. On 

 the reverses, the figure of Hercules is not to be mistaken. The legend on these 

 coins from a general comparison will appear to be BA2IAEJ32 2 THPD2 2E 

 EPMAIOT. If 2THPD2 or STHTDSSE have no signification as an epithet, I may 

 suggest that THPD2 be read 2HTHP02 and 2E be understood as the epoch, which 

 will be fortunate, as in numerals it will be 75, and the coins of Herm^eus II. 

 give us 2V or 74*. That he died young may be inferred from our meeting with 

 none of his coins on which he has a more aged appearance than the one found 

 present. The coins now considered are very numerous. I am not quite certain 

 whether we may not eventually find on some of them, other names than that of 

 Herm/eus. It is fortunate that the Pehlevi characters on the reverses are in much 

 better style than the Greek characters ; a natural circumstance, as the artists were 

 probably no longer Greeks, but natives, whose vernacular language was the 

 former. 



Satisfactory it is to be enabled to assert that the burial place of Herm^eus the 

 III. was near the modern Jelalabad, near which I feel convinced was the celebrat- 

 ed city of Nysa. A tope called Janni Tope in its neighbourhood was opened by 

 M. Martin, who extracted therefrom three small boxesof stone, containing trinkets 

 and other trifles more curious than useful ; also, loosely lying among the earth, 

 were found between twenty and thirty of the copper coins of Herm^eus, rusty and 

 defaced indeed, but easily recognizable as of the same type as those here described. 



SOTEREAGASf. 



Fig. 26, Obverse. Bust, with diadem and fillets behind hair in rows of curls; rays 



* The Greek numerals must then be read ME and MA. — Ed. 



-f- I have left this as it stands in the MS. but there can be little doubt that the 

 title is 2HTHP MErA2 as read on the coins described and depicted by myself in the 

 second volume of the Journal, (plates ii. xi. and xiii,) but with these plates before him, 

 the author still finds reason to read the inscription HErA2. — Ed. 



