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of the same description and types as those illustrated in my Memoir of 

 last year ; but a few were procured of novel types, and a few altogether 

 new, among which one or two may be deemed valuable. It is my object 

 in this Memoir to detail these fresh discoveries, and to offer such remarks 

 upon them, and the topics they involve, as may arise upon their consi- 

 deration. My stay at Jeldldbdd was, during the season of the year, 

 unfavorable for the collection of coins ; yet, independently of those 

 extracted from topes, were procured 248 copper coins, among which 

 two or three are novel ones, to be noted in their place. 



Subsequent to my arrival in Kabul, I purchased in the bazar there, six 

 golden, 176 silver, and 142 copper coins : some of these are important' 

 ones. I had also the fortune to secure a large parcel of silver Bactrians, 

 a deposit discovered in the Hazdrehjdt : among these are coins of a type 

 likely to excite some interest. 



The coins extracted from the various topes opened this year, may 

 also be deemed interesting, from the positive connection they have with 

 the monuments enclosing them ; and valuable, from their superior pre- 

 servation, having in many instances been inserted new ; and presenting 

 specimens as perfect and intelligible as we may hope to procure. 



I shall observe in this Memoir nearly the order adopted in my 

 preceding one, with reference to classification and the succession of 

 series, making however such modifications and distinctions as further 

 discoveries seem to warrant. 



General Observations. 

 Class, Grecian Series, No. 1 . — Coins of the recorded Kings of Bactria. 



As during the last year, we are without any evidence of Theodotus 

 I. and Theodotus II., the two first Bactrian kings ; and that their sway 

 was confined to Bactriana proper, or the regions north of the Indian 

 Caucasus, is confirmed by the non-discovery of their coins at Beghrdm. 

 This fact can scarcely be doubted, when we have historical evidence, that 

 a distinct and powerful kingdom existed, under Sophagasenus, in the 

 Paropamisan range, at the time of the expedition of Antiochus Magnus. 



This year has yielded five copper coins of Euthydemus, the third 

 Bactrian king; one was procured at Jeldldbdd; the four others from 

 Beghrdm : their discovery seems to prove the extension of this monarch's 

 rule south of the Caucasus — a fact countenanced by probability, and the 

 slight historical evidences we have of him. The solitary coin found at 

 Jeldldbdd does not afford proof positive that Euthydemus governed there 

 also, both because there is no certainty where coins purchased in bazars 

 were produced ; and it is not impossible but that it may have found its 

 way there from Beghrdm, as the Afghan shepherds, resident on its plain 

 during the summer, migrate to Lughmdn and the vicinity of Jeldldbdd, 

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