1834.] in a second Tope at Mdnikycila. 565 



portion of the empire. It agrees with the description of a coin 

 in Vaillant, vol. ii. p. 9. 



Obverse. M. ANTON1VS. III. V1R. R. P. C. (Triumvir Reipublicce Con. 

 stituendce). Device, a radiated head of the sun, supposed to be the same as the 

 Egyptian Osiris. 



Reverse. The head of Antony, behind which the lituus, or crook, denoting 

 him to hold the priestly office of Augur. 



Fig. 20. — A silver denarius, recognized to belong to Julius Cesar, 



from the features, the inscription, and the peculiar device on the 



reverse. It corresponds with one described by Vaillant, ii. 1. 



Obverse. The head of Cesar, behind which a star. Medals of this kind were 



struck by Agrippa, Antony and others, in honor of Caesar, after his death ; the 



star alludes to his divine apotheosis : the letters CAESAR... remain distinct. 



Reverse. The group entitled in Latin, Or bis, Securis, Manus junctce, Caduceus, 

 et Fasces, supposed to designate the extended empire, the religion, concord, peace, 

 and justice of the emperor. 



Fig. 21. — This I imagine to be a coin of Augustus Cesar, although it 

 does not precisely agree with any published medal of that Emperor. 

 Obverse.. . VFVS. III. VIR. Two juvenile heads, probably of Caius and 

 Lucius. The circumscribing legend may be either of Mescinius Rufus, a 

 magistrate, (Vaill. ii. p. 23,) or of Plotius Rufus, mint master, (Vaili.. ii. 4,) 

 the only two recorded names permitting a termination in VFVS. and at the same 

 time being Triumvirs. 



Reverse. A female figure holding probably a spear in the left hand. The few 

 letters legible seem to form part of the usual inscription on the coins of Augustus. 

 CAESAR DIVI F. (Augustus Ccesar divi Julii filius) . 



Fig. 22. — The helmeted figure on this coin, and the unintelligible in- 

 scription on the reverse, lead me to ascribe it to the age of the Em- 

 peror Constantine, although I can find none in Bandurius nor 

 Vaillant, with which it exactly agrees. 

 Obverse. A bead facing the left, with a handsome helmet. 



Reverse. Two combatants, one clad as a Roman, the other as a German ? a 

 fallen warrior between the two. Beneath, the letters O.IERMM. 



The remaining three silver coins are in too imperfect a state to be 

 identified : the first, fig. 23, bears the final letters of the word 

 CAESARIS. The last, figure 25, has a female head with a mural 

 crown, which may belong to a Greek city. 



How or why these coins came to be selected for burial with the 

 local coins of the Indo-scythic monarch, it is impossible now to conjec- 

 ture ; and it is certainly a most curious fact, that while in the neighbour- 

 in^ monument, the foreign coins consisted solely of those of the Sassa- 

 nian dynasty of Persia, these should be entirely wanting here, and 

 should be replaced by coins of Rome, many of which must have been 

 regarded as antiques at the time, if I have been right in attributing 

 the fourth of the list to Constantine. Such an assumption indeed 

 removes all difficulties regarding the date, and brings about a near 



