406 Bactrian and Indo-Scythic Coins. [Ave. 
see the light except on occasions of this sort. Out of some dozens 
procured in this manner for as many current pyse, a few may be suffi- 
ciently curious to reward the trouble of search. Such beautiful coins 
as Lieut. Burnes brought back with him from the Panjab and Oxus 
are no longer to be procured in India; indeed ancient silver coins are 
of very great rarity compared either with those of gold or copper, and 
the only two Bactrian coins I have been so fortunate as to discover, 
were obtained out of the limits of our provinces.” 
I have not attempted to engrave any of the numerous sketches of his 
antiques which Dr. Swiney has been so obliging as to forward, but 
have confined myself to those of which he has sent sealing-wax im- 
pressions, or paper casts made in the school-boy fashion (but not to be 
despised on that account), by wrapping the coin in several folds of pa- 
per, and rubbing the exterior with a key or hard blunt point. 
Bactrian coins, Plate VIII. 
Figs. 1, 2, and 3, are described at pages 311 and 313. 
Fig. 4.—A small silver coin of Apollodotus, weighing 36 grs, 
Obverse, Head with diadem and fillets, and a neckcloth, inscription 
circular, close but quite distinct ; AIMOAAOAOTOY BAZSIAEQS 
SOQTHPOS KAI SIAOMATOPOS. The introduction of the con- 
junction KAI I do not remember to have seen on any other 
Greek coin. 
Reverse. A standing figure of Jupiter, rudely executed, holding a 
thunderbolt in his right hand, raised, and a kind of shield 
in the left: from the arms depend two ends of a sleeve or 
scarf; on the right is asingular monogram, (No. 4. of the 
series at the foot of the plate,) differmg widely from that 
of Colonel Ton’s coin of the same king, (No. 6. of the same 
series.) The legend is distinct but illegible, and agrees in cha- 
racter with that upon many of the bull and elephant coins— 
(see WiLson’s plates, figs. 3, 4,31; Ton, figs. 11, 12, &c.) 
The native who brought this coin to Dr. Swiney stated that it was 
procured by him at a town called Kaital, in the Sikh territory, not far 
from /varndal. 
Fig. 5.—A coin of Menander, agreeing in its general features with 
the last; weight 34 grs. 
Obverse. A well executed and intelligent face, with the diadem ; 
latter part of the inscription not very distinct MENANAPOY 
BASIAEQS SOTH(POS ?) 
Reverse. The figure supposed to be Jupiter in the last coin appears in 
this rather to be Minerva wielding the bolts of Jove, or it 
