870 Lieut* CunHingham on Bactrian coins. [No. 105. 



opinion, that these coins of Apollodotus Philopater were struck during 

 his association in the government with his father Eucratidas, on 

 their return from the Indian expedition. Now the square drachmas 

 of this prince, which has the elephant and the Indian humped bull, 

 are common at Beghram and in the valley of the Kabul river, 

 as well as in the Punjab ; and thus they would seem to have been 

 struck by this parricidal prince after the murder of his father, in com- 

 memoration of the Indian victory. 



Third. — The partiality of Eucratidas for ''the god of Love and Poesie 

 and Light" is proved by the frequent occurrence of the figure of Apollo 

 as the reverse of his tetradrachms, and by the laurelled head of Apollo 

 found on the round copper coin of tWs prince, belonging to the 

 Austrian cabinet ; and nothing could be more natural in one, whose 

 favourite and patron deity was the glorious sun, than to call his 

 child Apollo'dotus, " the gift of Apollo ;" and we may even suppose 

 that the birth of this child was the fulfilment of some prayer, made to 

 the patron god. 



Fourth. — The figure of Apollo is portrayed on the square copper 

 coins of Apollodotus, standing exactly in the same attitude as that 

 in which he is figured on many of the tetradrachms of Eucratidas, 

 which is worthy of notice, as it establishes a close numismatic con- 

 nexion between the coins of these two princes. 



Such are the facts which prove, in my opinion, the relationship be- 

 tween Eucratidas and Apollodotus ; and my conclusion is still further 

 borne out by the evident inferiority of the round Philopater drachmas 

 to the square drachmas bearing the elephant and the Indian humped 

 bull, which remarkable difference may be easily accounted for, by the 

 fact, that the Philopater coins must have been struck by less skilful 

 workmen, during the return from the Indian expedition; while the 

 square drachmas, which are of superior execution, of bold relief, 

 and of most beautiful make, would have been coined by the best artists 

 in the metropolis of Bactria. 



No, 2. A round copper coin, of large size, of riiiddling make, 

 and in fair preservation. 



Obverse. Figure of Apollo standing half turned to the right; 

 the chlamys falling behind, and a quiver at his shoulder, holding 

 in his left hand an arrow pointed downwards ; his right hand raised 



