1834.] Correction of notices of coins in vol. II. 637 



third centuries after Christ are often found in the Punjab and in India 

 itself, as may be seen by referring to the pages of your Journal*. 



At page 311, Vol. II. of the Journal, you describe a coin, shown 

 in Plate VIII. Fig. 1 of coins, as of Alexander the Great, ' having 

 a fiue juvenile portrait of the conqueror before he assumed the 

 horn of Ammon ; and, on the reverse, Apollo seated on the 

 peculiar oracular seat,' &c. If this is a coin of Alexander the 

 Great, what is the meaning of the following note at page 32, 

 vol. ii. ? This coin of Demetrius is recognized to be Seleu- 

 cidan from the figure of Apollo sitting upon a peculiar altar, 

 described by Pinkerton as a ' hamper inverted !' Now the reverses 

 of these two coins are alike, consequently if one is known to be Seleu- 

 cidan from its reverse, the other must also be Seleucidan ; — add to 

 this, the coins of Alexander the Great have no numerals upon them, 

 and very few, if any, have titles. In my opinion it is a coin of Alex- 

 ander 1st, or Bala of Syria, who bore the very title of Euergetes 

 which is upon this coin [. 



At page 406, vol. ii. — on a coin of Apollodotus you remark that 

 ' the introduction of the conjunction KAI you do not remember to 

 have seen on any other Greek coin.' Out of only 30 Greek coins in 

 my possession there is one conjunction KAI upon it — but I believe it ia 

 not common upon Greek coins. 



I should like to see Fig. 13, Plate II. of Roman coins, as it seems a 

 very curious one. I have many remarks to make upon Mons. Mas- 

 son's collection of coins, but I must defer them until I know whether 

 those I have already made are acceptable or not. I hope you will 

 pardon the liberty I take not only in addressing you, but in differing 

 from you in opinion. 



* The existence of the Rao Nano Rao coins in M. Court's tope prove it to 

 belong to nearly the same epoch as the neighbouring monument opened by Gen. 

 Ventura, in which Sassanian coins of the seventh century (according to Sacy 

 and Frojhn, were discovered. Although, therefore, taken alone, the Roman coins 

 would raise the antiquity of the tope to a period somewhat posterior to the time 

 of Antony's expedition, still in combination with the other facts, they cannot 

 set aside the more modern date of deposit: and the inference is stronger than 

 ever, of their 'having been antiques at the time, and of the party buried there 

 having been an antiquary in his day. — Ed. 



f The title of Alexander I. was Philopator and not Theopator ,- however 

 there is every probability of the coin belonging to him. It was ascribed to Alex- 

 ander the Great, principally from the handsome youthful features of the mo* 

 narch. — Ed. 



