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The poor mintage of the Indo-Parthians might have either been a 

 continuation of the latter, or of that of the later Greek princes. It 

 presents no sudden alteration of currency, like that just alluded to ; 

 and, in either case, has the character of a peaceful revolution, or 

 change of dynasty. But as we cannot doubt that the paramount 

 Greek domination in India, as well as in Bactria, was annihilated by 

 conquest, it seems to follow that the change in question has no con- 

 nexion with that revolution, but was a natural one, from a Scythian to 

 a Parthian dynasty, as inferred in a former note. Such, at least is the 

 conclusion forced on us by the present data, which, we may hope 

 that the continued researches of Professor Wilson, with whose invita- 

 tion to inquiry the present analysis is an imperfect attempt at com- 

 pliance, will either confirm or correct. That there were Parthian 

 as well as Scythian rulers in India in the Roman age, is evident 

 from the names preserved by contemporary writers (see Table I.) 

 They are not those of the Indo-Parthians of the coins, and may have 

 preceded them. 



