1835.] Gen. Ventura, Dr. Gerard, and Syed Kerdmat AH. 341 



■pig. 5. — Has on the obverse, the Indian elephant, with a monogram, and the 

 usual title ; and on the reverse, a Brahmany bull, with the same Pehlevi legend. 



Pig % 6. — is a copper coin in Dr. Swiney's collection, the precise fellow to 

 that described by Major Tod, in the Royal Asiatic Society's Transactions. 



Figs. 7, 8. — Are two from among several square copper coins brought down by 

 Mohan La'l. They are nearly the same as the coin in Lieut. Burnes' collec- 

 tion, (J. A. S. vol. ii. pi. xi. fig. 7,) which, I then supposed to be a Menander, 

 but which I am now able to recognize by its Pehlevl legend. The examples on 

 these coins, are decisive of the orthography of "P'l'T.oo (Soteros.) 



Antilakides. 

 Figures 9, 10, 1 1, are three selected quadrangular coins of Antila- 

 kides, from six in the Ventura collection. The name was first made 

 known by Masson, who supposes from the beards, (which are not 

 however so clear on the specimens before us,) that this prince and the 

 next AT2I02 belong to a separate dynasty. He detects the conical 

 emblem of the reverse on one coin of Eucratides. I have not how- 

 ever found any of the sort. One description will serve for all. 



Obverse. Head of the sovereign, with the legend BA2IAEX12 NIKH$OPOT 

 ANTIAAKIAOY. 



Reverse. Two plumes waving over two conical caps or bee-hives ? Monogram 

 below 7?2, and Pehlevi inscription 'P^j^+i^^Q TP'IT.A? TiLTlO, or ma- 

 lak&o ajalado atilikado, or atikalikado ? 



Lysitjs. 

 Fig. 12. — A copper quadrangular coin of Lysius, similar to two in 

 Masson's series of Ausius : — the first letter is clearly an I, in Greek, 

 and this reading is confirmed by the Pehlevi +i. The monograms are 

 the same as in the last coin. 



Obverse. Head of the king with the legend BA2IAEH2 ANIKHTOT AT2IOT. 

 Reverse. An elephant with a monogram "K2, and the Pehlevi inscription 



T v K w f*H TN^ltvj rnalakdo ...... lisato. 



Plate XXI. 

 I have designed in this plate from the Ventura collection several 

 very interesting coins, of new names and features, for which no loca- 

 lity can as yet be assigned. As almost all of them bear Pehlevi inscrip- 

 tions, they are evidently Bactrian ; but to admit them in the regular 

 series of that dynasty, would greatly extend the catalogue of its 

 princes. They rather bear out the fact of there having been several 

 petty independent dynasties, like that at Nysa, for which Mr. Masson 

 endeavours to set apart some of the coins to be presently mentioned. 



Philoxenus. 

 Fig. 1. — A fine silver coin of Philoxenus in the Ventura collection. This 

 name was borne by one of Alexander's generals, to whom Cilicia, west of the 

 Euphrates, was assigned in the division of his conquests. The coin, therefore, 

 cannot belong to him, though his title of ' unconquered' would argue his power 

 and warlike propensity. 



