

1840.] Notes on Captain Hay^s Bactrian coins. 537 



sighted M. Raoul Rochette. Beneath the bonnets are the monogram 



TA. and the letter 2. Bactrian legend in three lines, Maha- 



rajasa Assavihatasa Lisiasa " coin of the great king, the invin- 

 cible Lysias." 



The bonnets of the Dioscuri which have been long familiar as the 

 type of all the known copper coins of Antialcidas, and of some rare 

 small silver and small copper pieces of Eucratides, now figured for 

 the first time on the coin of Lysias ; and this fact serves to strengthen 

 the connection between Lysias and Antialcidas already observed in 

 the numismatic coincidences of the monograms on their respective 

 coins, as well as in their corresponding size, thickness, and make; 

 and it may almost warrant us in supposing that those two princes 

 were of the same dynasty as Eucratides, and that they succeeded 

 him at no great interval. 



No. 4. A square copper coin of middle size. This is a specimen 

 of the only type of the copper coins of Lysias that was known before 

 the acquisition of the piece just described. 

 Obverse, — Same as the preceding. 



Reverse. — An elephant walking to the right. Bactrian legend as 

 in the coin just described. 



No. 5. A square piece of middle size; the right upper corner 

 has been cut off, to bring it, as Captain Hay justly remarks, to some 

 established standard weight. 



Obverse.— The sinha, or maneless lion of India walking to the 

 right ; Grecian legend in two lines— fiacnXzojg I1ANTAAE0NT02 

 " (coin) of the king Pantaleon." 



Reverse. — A figure which has been plausibly supposed to be a 

 Bacchante — Legend in ancient Pali (as read by Mr. James Prinsep) 

 Pantelawanta, which reading is not in my opinion quite satisfactory ; 

 but I am unable to offer a better, from the want of a more perfect 

 specimen of this coin than has yet been found. 



No. 6. A square copper coin of middle size with one of the lower 

 corners cut off. 



Obverse. — An elephant walking to the right, over which is a symbol 

 which may be either a Buddhist chaitya, or a representation of mount 

 Meree. 



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