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Greek names. The forged specimens which I have described are, with 

 the exception of the Owl Menander, of such grotesquely barbarous 

 workmanship, that a single glance is sufficient to detect their spurious- 

 ness. A collector therefore in examining a coin of this class has only 

 to pay particular attention to two points ; namely, whether its work- 

 manship be worthy of Grecian art ; and whether the double legends 

 are perfect ; in carefully attending to which he will escape the pur- 

 chase 



Of many medals, " which if neither rare 



Nor ancient, will be so, preserved with care. 



Since writing the above notice, several other glaring forgeries have 

 become known to me through the kindness of zealous friends. From 

 Captain Hay I have received sketches of two square silver pieces of 

 Menander, the exact counterparts of Nos. 3 and 4 of the accompa- 

 nying plate. In the Bactrian Pali legend of No. 3, I observe the same 

 remarkable omission of the final T sa^ of Maharajasa^ although there is 

 abundance of room for it on the forged piece. Captain Hay suspected 

 them to be forgeries when he first saw them ; but as they formed part 

 of a large collection which was offered for sale, he was constrained to 

 purchase the whole. 



From Lady Sale I have received impressions of her gold Amyntas, 

 which is of square form, and is in all respects, save that of metal, 

 identical with the barbarous silver piece engraved as No. 5 : it is 

 therefore, as I supposed in my former notice, an undoubted forgery. 

 Lady Sale also purchased two other gold pieces at the same time from 

 the same dealer ; one of them a Kadphises in his chariot, similar to 

 No. 9 of the accompanying plate, and the other a Kadphises with a 

 common bull, reverse, both of which I cannot help suspecting to be 

 worthless, from the bad company in which they were found. 



I have likewise received no less than nineteen forged silver pieces 

 from my brother Lieut. J. D. Cunningham, at Peshawur. who knowing 

 them to be forgeries, kindly purchased them for me with the hope 

 that their early publication might put collectors upon their guard. Of 

 these nineteen pieces, three are forgeries of a Roman drachma, and 

 the remaining sixteen are forgeries of the drachmas of Menander ; six 

 being of the helmeted type, and ten of the bare-headed type, of whicii 



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