1840.] from Bactrian and Indo- Scythian coins. 259 



By his treatises, published in the above-mentioned Journal, we 

 are best able to observe the course, and the gradual increase of 

 those discoveries.* 



The collection made by Dr. Honigberger, as well as that of 

 General Allard, and a portion of Ventura's collection, have been 

 brought to Paris, where Mr. Raoul-Rochette edited and describ- 

 ed them.f Mr. Raoul-Rochette is so well known to all European 

 learned men as a solid and acute inquirer into antiquity, as well 

 as an experienced and judicious connoisseur of ancient art, 

 that I need hardly declare that the explanation of those coins 

 could not have been intrusted to more skilful hands. He who 

 is not a numismatist, will be doubly obliged to him for the 

 exactness with which he exhibits every trace of historical refer- 

 ences, preserved in the coins. 



Though the Germans could not share in editing the coins, 

 yet they have been fellow-labourers, as well in the collecting, 

 as in the interpreting of them. I have to mention here 

 two learned men, — Mr. K. O. Mueller, at Gottingen, who had 

 already published! a detailed account, full of striking remarks, 

 on the newly acquired coins. But of much greater importance 

 is his lately published treatise on Indo- Grecian coins.§ It is an 

 example as clear as solid, of the new results which the history 

 of those countries has gained by those coins. 



* They are chiefly the following, vol. in. p. 313. On the coins and 

 relics, discovered by M. le Chevalier Ventura, in the tope of Manikyala. 

 P. 436. Continuation of observations on the coins and relics, &c. at the 

 same place, p. 562. Notes on the coins, discovered by M. Court, vol. in. 

 iv. p. 317. Further notes and drawings of Bactrian and Indo-Scythic 

 coins; at the same place, p. 621. p. 668. On the connection of various 

 ancient Hindoo coins with the Grecian or Indo-Scythic series, vol. v. p. 548. 

 New varieties of Bactrian coins from Mr. Masson's drawings, and other 

 sources ; at the same place, p. 639. New varieties of the Mithraic or Indo- 

 Scythic series of coins and their imitations ; at the same place, p. 720. New 

 types of Bactrian and Indo-Scythic coins. 



f Supplement a la notice, etc. Journ. des Sav. 1835. Deuxieme supple- 

 ment a la notice, etc. at the same place, 1836. Both likewise in a separate 

 edition, after which I shall make the citations. 



X Goettingen Anzeigen. 1835. No. 177. p. 1761. 



§ At the same place, 1838. No. 21. p. 201. 



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