1335.] Gen. Ventura, Dr. Gerard, and Syed Kerdmat All. 347 



writing in Greek, is satisfactorily confirmed by the discovery of the 

 present coins bearing Greek legends with names evidently native. 



Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. — This very numerous group of copper 

 coins is attributed by Masson to Erm.<eus the Second, the first 

 three letters of whose name certainly appear on some few specimens 

 (as Jig. 10) i but his name is not to be found on the reverse in the 

 Pehlevi, which is totally distinct from the preceding coins, and yet it is 

 the same on all the specimens I have compared; although great variety 

 exists in the Greek legends, as if they had been copied at random from, 

 other coins. The device of all is the same. 



Obverse. A head with curly hair, no beard, in general miserably engraved. 



For marginal inscription ; Fig. 9. has .... AEn22THPD2 2TAD 



Fig. 10, BA2IAE ErM. . . 



Fig. 11.— NO KAA$ICHC and/y. 12, BACIAEHS EDT. 



Reverse. A spirited figure of Hercules, standing with his club, and lion-skin 

 cloak. Pehlevi inscription, as well as it can be made out from a careful exami- 

 nation of a great many specimens, ^k^AP^fc* T rMilvh. 'lI'H J V. 



This text differs so entirely from all we have hitherto seen, that I 

 cannot attempt to decypher it, nor even to distinguish the titles from 

 the name. I have merely placed o at the head, from a faint trace of 

 the initial word "PiLllu, between the letters of which other cha- 

 racters appear to be introduced. The decided trace of Kadphises* 

 name on several coins of the type, incline me to place it at the lowest 

 station in the present series, as a link with the series already fully 

 described of that Indo-Scythic sovereign : and it will be remarked 

 that the letter or symbol «H J is visible on the bull and raja coins of this 

 prince also ; indeed their whole Pehlevi inscription much resembles, 

 if it does not coincide entirely with, the present example. 



Kadaphes. 

 Figs. 14, 15, 16. — If any thing were wanting, however, to connect 

 the two lines, these coins would supply the gap. One of them 

 was presented by Lieut. Burnes to the Society, and was mistaken for 

 the horseman coin described in page 343. The name was more fully 

 made out from six coins of Ventura's and three of Keramat Ali's 

 collections. The monogram agrees with one of the Azos series, 

 fig. 22, as before remarked. 



Obverse. A neatly engraved head with diadem and legend KAAA*E2 



XOPANOT. 



Reverse. Jupiter seated, left hand extended ; the wheel monogram, and legend 

 in nearly the same characters as that of the preceding coins. 



This coin will form an appropriate conclusion to my present notice, 

 which, I believe, has embraced all the specimens properly attribut- 

 able to the Bactrian group. The fire-altar on the next or Indo-Scy- 

 thic coinage, forms a convenient mark of distinction, as well as the 

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