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has been well executed, having on the obverse an elephant's 

 head, with a bell round his neck, and without any legend : the 

 reverse has what I take to represent a sceptre and BASIAEQE 

 AHMHTPIY. This Demetrius (called the handsome) son of 

 Euthydemus, married a daughter of Antiochus the Great ; fixed 

 by Bayer 205 b. c. 



I have also found at Bameean this winter a coin of Euthyde- 

 mus, the father of Demetrius ; but altogether so inferior in ap- 

 pearance to those handsome medals figured in Burnes's work, 

 that it is evident mine must have been struck at a provincial 

 mint, and represents Euthydemus merely as Soter, not Basileus. 

 The letters are badly executed, and it will be observed that the 

 Epsilon is used reversed where in Burnes's coin an Eta is substi- 

 tuted, and the H is used instead of 9. Thus EYHrA3MOY 



The reverse has Hercules and a Pehlevi legend, which is not 

 sufficiently clear to distinguish. These are the only true Bac- 

 trian coins that have been discovered since our sojourn at 

 Bameean, and both are in my possession. 



As the coins of Antimachus do not appear common, and I 

 do not remember seeing one figured, I send an impression of a 

 very perfect silver coin which I procured from a cafila on its 

 way from Balkh : from the same cafila I was fortunate enough 

 to procure a large and very perfect silver Eukratides, which I 

 think has been described in a former number of the Asiatic 

 Society's Journal. I have many other coins of Apollodotus, 

 Menander, Pantaleon, Lysius, Ermaios, Spalirisces, Azos, also 

 coins of the Indo-Sythic series, Kadphices and Kanerkas, but I 

 fancy all these appear in Masson's list of discoveries, and are by 

 this time I hope under the able description of H. Wilson. 



I remain, with respect, 



Your obedient servant, 



WILLIAM HAY. 



