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store of coins he has brought back from the Panjab and from the valley 
of the Oxus. 
Of pure Bactrian coins, he will be able to add at least three to the 
cabinets of Europe; upon one of which the name of Euruypemus is 
quite distinct: while of the Indo-Scythic or subsequent dynasties his 
store is so ample as to afford ten for the Bombay Literary Society, and 
as many more for our own cabinet, besides those he takes to Europe; 
and among the latter is one coin of the dynasty which supplanted the 
Macedonian princes of Bactria, calculated to excite much curiosity 
among antiquarians. 
This abstruse subject is already deriving elucidation from the dis- 
covery of coins in many places, which is a forcible proof of the ad- 
vantage of giving early publicity to such discoveries, and to the 
comments of antiquarians upon them: already has Dr. Swiney at Kar- 
nal, following up his former researches, fallen upon two silver coins 
of ApoLLopotus and Menanper, neither of them duplicates of the two 
which rewarded Colonel Top’s labours. _I hope soon to have it in my 
power to engrave these coins as a continuation of the plate I am now 
about to describe, in illustration of some of Lieutenant Burnss’ col- 
lection. Captain Wane has also presented me with a few coins, obtained 
in his recent tour down the Satlej._ To General Ventura however we 
still look for our richest harvest, because his coins have a definite con- 
nection with an existing monument ; and when that meritorious officer 
shall see how Lieutenant Burnzs has taught us to appreciate his labours 
at Manikyala, we hope he will uo longer think us unworthy of being 
made the medium of their introduction to the knowledge of the world. 
Macedonian and Syrian Coins. 
Having given in Plate V. a type of the coins of ALexanprr, I need 
not stop to describe those brought from Persia by our traveller, a 
tetradrachma and two small coins of that conqueror in excellent pre- 
servation ; the larger coin has a curious cypher composed of the letters 
P MH enclosed in a wreath; in numerals this would represent 148. 
Captain W apr has presented me with ararer silver coin of ALEXANDER, 
having a fine juvenile portrait of the conqueror before he assumed the 
horn of Ammon; and, on the reverse, Apollo seated on the peculiar 
oracular seat, holding an arrow pointed downwards, in the right hand 
(denoting clemency) ; his left hand resting upon a bow. 
The epigraphe is BASIAEQ= AAEZANAPOY @EOMATOPOS EYEPTETOY. 
On the exergue, the lettérc; and on the left, a peculiar three-pronged 
monogram, resembling the letter a. 
