442 Continuation of Remarks on [Sept. 



The next observation which offers is, that none of the words of the 

 inscription are Greek ; neither the titles of the Indoscythic sovereigns 

 of Bactria, baciaetc BACIAEnisr, nor even Greek terminations to 

 the words, being any longer apparent (with exception of two Kadphises 

 coins upon which the Greek legend was barely perceptible). It was 

 not until I had carefully analyzed all that was legible of the fresh 

 supply of coins of the same nature, that I was able to distinguish the 

 direct consanguinity of the whole of these barbaric descendants with 

 their comparatively pure progenitors above mentioned. 



Nearly the whole of the Bactrian series of coins is now known to us. 



Those of pure Grecian fabrication, such as the beautiful silver medal 

 of Euthvdemus brought down by Lieut. Burnes, of which Dr. Gerard 

 has recently favored me with a duplicate, simply bear the head of the 

 sovereign on the obverse, and his name, along with a figure of Jupi- 

 ter, Hercules, or some other god, on the reverse, after the fashion of 

 their Syrian prototypes*. 



The coins of Menander, Apollodotus, and Eucratides, as well as 

 those of Antilakides, Herm^eus, Unadpherros, and other princes made 

 known through Mr. Masson's successful researches, have invariably an 

 inscription in Pehlevi or some unknown character on the reverse, while 

 the name and titles of the sovereign, instead of running straight across 

 the field as in the Macedonian coins, encircle the device on the obverse, 

 in the manner of the Roman coins of the same period, which were then 

 no doubt current extensively in the east. 



The Pehlevi inscription continues on the coins of Kadphises, which 

 we may conclude from their comparative rarity in the Manikyala col- 

 lection to have belonged to a different province from those of Kanerkos, 

 or to have been antecedent to them by a period sufficient to render them 

 scarce in the district. 



The fortunate discovery by Dr. Martin Honigberger of one of the 

 coins of this prince in a tope near Kabul, corroborates the idea of a 

 separate seat of government ; and the device of the bull (and Siva ?) 

 points to a different creed from that of the Kanerkos series, which bear 

 an ima^e, as will presently be shown, of the sun ; and thus appear 

 more nearly allied to the Persian creed. 



At the period however, of the erection of the Manikyala monument, 

 a considerable change had taken place in the designation of the princes 

 of both countries : at least we find a similar alteration in the inscrip- 

 tion of the coins of both ; the devices in other respects remaining unal- 

 tered or only deteriorated in execution. 



* See Journal As. Soc. vol. ii. plate xi. 



