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monograms or symbols visible upon most of them. TI have inserted at 
the foot of the present plate such of these as occur in the coins be- 
fore us. Most of them may be found on the Greek civic coins of the 
Hunterian cabinet at Glasgow; those upon the genuine Greek coins 
are evidently cyphers or compounds of Greek letters ; either numerals 
marking the date, or initials of persons connected with the mint. 
Monogram 1 appears upona coin of Demerrius of Syria (plate v.y, 
and may be compounded of a 1, symbolical of Antioch, the place of 
coinage: it is No. 67 of Comsx’s Hunterian Catalogue. J/on. 2, on 
AexanpEr’s coin, (53 of Comssz,) may be A, and may stand for one of 
the numerous cities of this monarch’s name. The third, (plate vii, fig. 1,) 
is evidently formed of the Greek letters P E, being perhaps the date (105 
of the Syrian era, or 206 B. C.)*, subjoined by A, betokening the loca- 
lity. The next four (4, 5, 6, 7) occur in the coins of Apotiopotus 
and Menanpver (86, 216, and 326 of Comsz). Colonel Top supposes 
the latter two and fig. 9 to be formed of numeral letters, but the 
combination of units is pronounced to be inadmissible. 8 and 9 ap- 
pear on the coin of the last Bactrian monarch, ‘ the great king.” 
They are not found in Comse: but the latter may be a combination 
of the letters O, T, Hand. 10, 11, and 12, having four prongs 
and the ring below cut open, belong to the supposed Kaniska coin, 
and all the coins of the raja and bull, and raja and elephant type. 
These can no longer be interpreted as letters, though evidently imi- 
tated from the foregoing. Mon. 13 occurs in one of Colonel Top’s 
coins of the same class, with the running figure (13 of 3rd series), 
but it may probably be an imperfect impression of the foregoing 
symbol. From monogram 12 to the lozenge form of 14 is but a slight 
transition, and thus we pass to a wholly different class of coins, as- 
cribed by Col. Top to the Pandu dynasty, because the inscriptions 
are in the same character which is found wherever the Pandy autho- 
rity existed ;—in the caves, and on the rocks of Junagur, Girnar, on 
the pillar of victory in Meywar, and on the columns of Indra-prestha 
(Delhi) and Praydg (Allahabad). 
These coins are decidedly the most ancient of Hindu type which are 
known, and yet being of pure gold they are generally in a perfect state 
of preservation, and the characters, though unknown, are very clearly 
defined; many of them resemble the Tibetan form of Sanskrit. Most of 
them may be recognized in the inscriptions (or descriptive titles) 
over the sculptures at Mahabdlipuram, described by Mr. Gotpincuam 
* If so, this coin should belong to ANTIOcHUs the Great, and not A. THEOs ag 
supposed in page 312, from his cognomen Epiphanes. 
