340 Notice of new Bactrian Coins, collected by [June, 



Kodus. 



Figs. 11, 12, 13. — Three small silver coins, inserted in this plate, 

 because their inscriptions are entirely Greek, though they have no 

 other pretension to be counted with Bactrian coins. The appearance 

 of the head-dress in the third is rather Arsacidan, but the names and 

 titles are altogether novel and curious. I have selected the three 

 most legible from among several coins in my possession. The first two 

 are of Mohan La'l's, the third of Keramat Ali's, collection. The 

 name of KhaOs is altogether unknown. 



The heads on the obverse of all these coins seem to belong to 

 different persons ; the standing warrior on the reverse is alike in all, 



and the inscriptions on the two first KbJAOT MAKAP PAH0POT 



On the third coin, the titles differ, and are illegible, but the name 

 KLdA.. .. is the same. 



Plate XXVI. Menander. 



Although Menander is well known to have preceded Eucratides 

 in date, I have preferred separating his coins from the genuine Bac- 

 trian group, and classifying them with those of Apollodotus, Antila- 

 kides, &c, as a distinct series, on account of the essential difference in 

 their style of execution. Their native legends, also, seem to denote a 

 different locality. Menander, before he came to the throne of Bactria 

 proper, had, it is supposed, formed an independent dominion in the 

 more southern provinces on the Indus. This may be the reason of 

 the deviation from the Syrian type of coin, so remarkably preserved 

 by the earlier sovereigns of Bactria. 



Figures 1, 2, 3, one silver and two copper coins of Menander. 



Fig. 1.— A silver hemidrachma, weighing 37 grains, (one from Keramat Ali . 

 a duplicate from Dr. Gerard,) differing from those depicted in Masson's plates, 

 and from Dr. Swiney's coin described in the Journal, vol. II. p. 406. 



Obverse. Head facing the left, on the margin BASIAEn^ 2X2THP05 MENAN- 

 APOT : a kind of sceptre, or crook, lying on the shoulder. 



Reverse. Minerva with Jupiter's thunderbolt, facing the right ; Pehlevi legend 

 T££U> T^l'll THTlU, malakdo rakako minano, and monogram J3$ (see vol. III. 

 page 164.) 



Fig. 2.— Has already been drawn and described by Mr. Masson. Vol. II. (9.) 



Fig. 3.— Differs fromMAssoN'sjfy. ], in thefigureof Victory on the reverse. (K. A.) 



Apollodotus. 



Figures 4, 5. Two silver coins of Apollodotus, both in the Ventu- 

 ra cabinet ; of the first the number is considerable, the latter is new, 

 and of very beautiful execution. 



Fig. 4.— Has already been described from Dr. Swiney's coin in Journal, 

 vol. ii. page 406. The legend on the obverse is here quite distinct BA2IAEHS 

 2HTHP02 KAI <KIAOnATOP02 AnOAAOAOTOT. The Pehlevi inscription on 

 the reverse, however, has no addition for the words km QiXonaropos, being sim- 

 ply *nMn9 TYin T^mu. 





