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which forms the subject of the engraving, some of the 
letters are distinct, and appear to read SoO#IA Or OIA 
(quasi @cop:Aos), and on the left hand are some illegible 
characters, (Pheenician ?) differing in each. 
Below the portrait are the three Greek numerals 
VNa or YNA (anno 454,) but of what era, I am at a loss 
to conjecture ; it may be of the Arsakian or Armenian, 
- but I must leave the point to those better versed in the 
subject. 
To continue the Arsakian coins :— 
Fig. 1. Obverse.—Head with wart on the forehead: hair dressed 
in rows of curls: plain band, with fillets hanging be- 
hind: an eagle apparently with a wreath in its mouth. 
Reverse. Figure seated, holding out a bow over the characters [+ 
around BASIAEOS BASIAEQN APCAKOY EYEPIFET AIKAI 
EMI@ANO SIAEAAH. 
Colonel Wilson had four coins with the same symbol, which Vaillant attributes 
to Arsaces Vonones XVIII, The eagle may also denote Chosroes ( Vail. ii. 195.) 
Fig. 5.—Obverse. Head of peculiar features, with pointed beard and 
hooked nose. 
Reverse. Sitting figure in trowsers, with bow, very rudely executed 
. and the legend BACIAEOS APCAKOY ENI@ANOTS IAEAAH 
Colenel Wilson has one similar, and both correspond with one in Vaillant, 
marked Arsaces Mithridates II. (V. i. 69.) 
Fig. 6. Head with plain turban and bow behind: same inscription 
on the reverse, very rudely cut. 
Fig. 2. Head with mitred cap, and arched nose, well executed : 
type, same as fig. 1, BASIAEQ= METAAOY APSAKOY EON 
ATPOS NIKATOPos, of better execution than either of the 
foregoing. 
Vaillant ascribes the mitred cap to Arsaces Orodes. Col. Wilson had another coin 
of similar character. 
Another, Mitred head similar to fig. 2, but without the hook orna* 
ments: sametype, BASIAENS BASIAEQN APSAKOY AIKAIOY 
EYEPFETOY #IAEAAHNOY. 
Fig. 8.—Head with mitred cap, as in fig. 2, with a peculiar symbol 
behind it: same reverse. 
Colonel Wilson has another similar to this in head-dress, it is ascribed to 
Arsaces Orodes (Vail. i. 145.) 
Fig. 7.—Head with deep turban and mitred cap about it, and bow 
behind, with fillets of rudest fabrication: character 
quite perverted. 
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