644 Lassen on the History traced [No. 103. 



Masson found 107 coins of Eukratides in Beghram, he does 

 not, however, distinguish them according to the types.* 



There occur also coins of Agathokles, with a purely Greek 

 legend ; but as nobody would adopt the idea of two Agathokles, 

 we shall postpone the investigation of this point. 

 § 2. Purely Grecian characters, the kings not Greek, having, 

 however, no barbarian titles. 



The following coins present a singular phenomenon. Mr. Mas- 

 son discovered at Beghram_,t in the space of three years two hun- 

 dred and fifty-seven specimens of a coin with the legend 

 BA2IA2EY2: BA2IAEQN 2QTHPMErA2, but without a 

 proper name. The Greek legend being sometimes corrupted, 

 we observe either BAEIAEY or BASIAEYON.:]: Bags full of 

 these may be had in Affghanistan, and in the Punjab. The simi- 

 lar coins with a native legend, never have the bust of the nameless 

 king. Mr. Raoul-Rochette describes them in this manner : 

 " Bust of a king, the head encircled by a diadem and a nimbus ; 

 with his left hand holding an iron spear ; no legend. Reverse, 

 a man on horseback with the Greek legend, above mentioned. 

 The head of the bust helmeted, occurs too as a variety.'^§ 



The large number of these coins proves that this king posses- 

 sed an ample empire, and did not reign for a short time ; he must 

 have governed Cabul, and a part of the Punjab. The corrupt 

 Greek suggests an era, more recent than that of many other 

 Indo-Scythian coins. The title awrrip seems to connect him to 

 the Greek Soter family, which may have concluded with Hermaios. 

 This is the remark of Mr. Mueller, and I am only prevented 

 from adopting it, because the Kadaphes coins are apparently 

 still nearer related to one or the other Hermaios, and all the 

 other Soters have likewise native legends. M. Raoul-Rochette|| 

 accounts for the want of the name by (the supposed existence 

 of) an agreement, with regard to the currency, to the effect, that 

 in order to put the coins into common circulation in neighbour- 

 ing states, the name of none of the kings of those states was 



* A. T. V. p. 547. t A, T. V. p. 547. 



t R. R. I. p. 26. As. T. IV. 345. 

 § R. R. I. No. 17. No. 18. No. 19. As. T. IV. pi. xxni. No. 26 (Among 

 the Azes' coins.) \\ II. 38. 



