532 Notes on Captain Hay's Bactrian coins. [No. 101. 



Spalyris the just, was the brother of the great king of kings, 

 Azilises. 



The same type of a seated Hercules, figures on the unique coin of 

 Agathoclea, and were it not for the presence of a bust on her money, 

 and the better workmanship and higher finish observable in her coin, 

 which determine it to belong to an earlier and more flourishing era 

 of the Graecio- Bactrian power, I should be inclined to believe that 

 she was the wife of Azilises; and that the same prince who had 

 delegated to his brother the power of coining, had also allowed his 

 queen the same authority, or perhaps had ordered coin to be struck 

 in her name. 



I will conclude my notice of this new and valuable coin of Azilises, 

 by observing, that the square monogram surmounted by the Bactrian 

 letters si on this coin, is so entirely different from the circular monogram 

 found on all the coins of Spalyris, as to form a sufficient distinction 

 for attributing defaced coins of this type to the proper owner. * 



No. 2. A square copper coin of middle size, much defaced, but 

 easily recognised as a specimen of the commonest type of the coins 

 of the great king Eucratides, of which the following is a description. 



Obverse. — Head of the king helmeted and diademed, the ends of 

 the diadem appearing under the helmet behind ; the chlamys on 

 the shoulder. Great legend in three lines BA2IAEQ2 MErAAOY 

 EYKPATIAOY. « (Coin) of the great king Eucratides." 



Reverse. — The Dioscuri mounted, with spears in their hands, charg- 

 ing at speed to the right ; in the field a Grecian monogram. Legend 

 in Bactrian characters in two lines. Maharajasa Eukratidasa 

 " (Coin) of the great king Eucratides." 



The numerous coins of Eucratides are, with one exception, of two 

 distinct classes — the first class consisting of all the pieces bearing a 

 diademed head, with the simple inscription BA2IAEQ2 EYKPA- 

 TIAOY " (coin) of the king Eucratides" — the second class, including 

 all the pieces with the helmed head, and the longer inscription of 

 BA2IAEQ2 MErAAOY EYKPATIAOY « (Coin of the Great 

 king Eucratides.") This' marked distinction between these two groups 

 of coins has led the learned and judicious French antiquary, M. Raoul- 

 Rochette, to attribute the class with the helmed head and the more 



