1835.] Gen. Ventura, Dr. Gerard, and Syed Kerdmat Ali. 345 



BACIA6VC BACIA6UN CUTHP MErAC, without the insertion of any 

 name* ; and the monogram is the one frequently described as the key 

 symbol, or the trident with a ring below it. 



In Pehlevi the first portion corresponds with the Greek, 

 ^Pllu < P'~l v l y -l TTlu ; the conclusion is unfortunately not visible. The 

 letter *h appears on the field of the reverse, which bears a portrait of 

 a priest, extending his hand over a small fire- altar. 



Figs. 24 and 25 — May be safely called varieties of the above, still 

 retaining the Pehlevi on the reverse. A counterpart of fig. 24 will 

 be found in fig. 15 of Burnes' collection. 



Fig. 26. — This is by far the most common coin discovered in the 

 Panjab and Afghanistan. Bags full have been sent down in excellent 

 preservation, and yet nothing can be elicited from them. The present 

 specimen is engraved from a coin in Colonel Stacy's cabinet, found 

 in Malwa ; but the same coin has been engraved in the As. Res. vol. 

 xvii. ; in Burnes' collection, fig. 13 ; also, 10 of pi. xiv., in the same 

 volume : and in Masson's series, 26, 27, 28. It was the first coin 

 found in India on which Greek characters were discovered, or 

 noticed. The trident monogram connects it with the foregoing series ; 

 but it is impossible to say to whom they both belong. I have placed 

 them next to Azos, from the similarity of the horseman. They are 

 all copper coins, of high relief, and generally in good preservation. 



Azilisus. 



Figs. 27, 28. — Were it not that the name in these two coins is dis- 

 tinctly AZIAI20Y in the Greek, and V^^l A9 in the Pehlevi, they 

 might both have been classed in the preceding group, especially with 

 fig. 9. The bull of fig. 28, is surmounted by two monograms, like 

 those of the Lysius coins. It is so far singular, that while the name 

 of the prince Azilisus seems compounded of the two names Azos and 

 Lysius, the obverse and reverse of his coins should be counterparts 

 of theirs. The name itself is quite new, and we can only venture to 

 assign his position in proximity to his prototype, Azos. 

 Plate XXIV. Herm^us. 



Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4. One silver and three copper coins of Herm^us, 

 selected from a considerable number in order to develop the whole 

 circle of marginal inscription, seldom complete on a single specimen. 

 The description of one will serve for all, since, contrary to usage, the 

 impression on the silver and copper is precisely alike. 



Fig. 1. — A silver coin in the Gerard collection. 



Obverse. The king's head with simple diadem ; legend in corrupted Greek 

 BA2IAEH2 SnTHrDS ErMAIDV. 



* Mr. Masson attributed this series to a prince, whom he named Sotereagas. 

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