18 Memoir on the Ancient Coins of Eeghrdm. [Jan-, 



Antimachus must have reigned posterior to Euthydemus, and anterior 

 to Eucratides, while he could neither have preceded Apollodotus, 

 nor succeeded Menander, we have no alternative but to place his reign 

 between the two former princes, and to suppose him cotemporary with 

 the two latter : thus nearly yielding decisive proof that he was the son 

 and successor of Euthydemus in Bactriana proper. 



To omit no circumstances likely to throw light upon the subjects 

 under discussion, I advert to the nature and character of the deposit of 

 Bactrian coins, which yielded five of Antimachus, seven of Apollodo- 

 tus, and 108 of Menander; for matters apparently trivial may some- 

 times furnish valuable hints. A person, from some motive or other, con- 

 ceals a sum of money, the coins of which he will possess the larger 

 number are those of the reigning prince ; it is however easy to imagine 

 that he may have a few of the prince who preceded in rule, and a few of 

 any neighbouring or cotemporary sovereign. The person, who made 

 the deposit thus preserved for us, we may presume, did so in the reign 

 of Menander, which accounts for the notable proportion of that prince's 

 coins ; the few of Apollodotus seem to point him out as the predecessor 

 of Menander, and the fewer of Antimachus intimate, that he was a 

 neighbouring and cotemporary prince. The length to which I have 

 carried my observations on these coins, and the topics they involve, might 

 justify my being taxed with prolixity, did they not relate to a subject 

 so interesting and intricate as that of Bactrian history ; and I shall 

 conclude them by inserting a new table of the reigns and successions of 

 the Bactrian sovereigns, agreeably to the suppositions, the probability 

 of which I have advocated. 



Table. 



Theodotus I. established his sovereignty B.C. 255, reigned 12 years--- I to 12 of Bactrian sera. 



Theodotus II. began to reign B.C. 243, reigned 23 years 12 to 35 of do, 



Euthydemus began to reign B.C. 220, reigned 25 years 35 to 60 of do. 



Antimachus began to reign B.C. 195, reigned 24 years 60 to 84 of do. 



Eucratides began to reign B.C. 1/1, reigned 25 years 84 to 109 of do. 



Successor of Eucratides began to reign- • B.C. 146, reigned years unknown, 109 to period unknown. 

 Note.— The period B.C. 125, fixed for the destruction of the empire, liable to much distrust. 



I continue to discover the coins of Eucratides in the same numbers, 

 but have met with none of new types. I have noted that this monarch's 

 coins are not found east of Kabul, affording the presumption that his 

 sway did not extend thither. 



Among the coins collected this year, I have not discovered one by 

 which we can identify the successor of Eucratides; but among the 

 new which may claim to be considered Bactrian, we have one with the 

 classical name of Diomedes. 



We are also without any trace of Heliocles, who would appear to 

 have no claim to be introduced among the early Bactrian sovereigns ; 



