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



Obverse. — Head of the king to the right, bare and diademed, the 

 ends of the diadem hanging at the back of the head. Legend — 

 BA2IAEQ22QTHP02EPMAI0Y. "(Coin) of the saviour 

 king Hermoeus." 



Reverse. — The Olympian Jupiter seated on a chair. Legend in 

 Bactrian characters, Maharajasa nandatasa Ermayasa. " (Coin) of 

 the great king, the saviour Hermoeus. A beautiful specimen of this 

 same coin was first published by M. Raoul-Rochette in the Journal 

 des Savans for October, 1835. 



No. 10. — A round copper piece, of middle size. This is a coin of 

 the anonymous prince already described in the notice of No. 4, Plate I. 



No. 11. — A round copper piece, of middle size, in bad preservation. 

 This is, with some slight variations, another specimen of the same 

 type of Hermoeus as No. 3 of the present plate, already described. 



Captain Hay's opinion that there must have been several princes 

 of the name of Hermoeus is likewise held by Mr. Masson, who has 

 created three Hermcei, and located them in an imaginary seat at 

 Nysa, which he says was near Jelalabad ; but from what has been said 

 in the notice of the coins of Eucratides we may learn to be cautious 

 in creating several princes of the same name, from different types 

 and mintages of coins of the same prince. 



No. 12. — A round copper coin, of small size, and in very bad order. 

 The only word legible in the Greek legend is 2QTHP " saviour," 

 and I can make nothing of the marks occupying the usual place of 

 the Bactrian legend : I incline however to attribute this coin to 

 Azes, from its similarity in size, type, and general appearance, to many 

 coins of that prince which I have seen. 



No. 13. — A round silver coin of the size of a drachm. From the 

 imperfect sketch of this coin. I am unable to come to any conclusion 

 regarding it ; I think however that it does not belong to any Bactrian 

 prince ; but from having no means of reference to the published coins 

 of the Lysian, Cappadocian, and other kings, I cannot do more than 

 record my belief that it is not a Bactrian coin : should it however 

 prove to be so, it will be one of the most valuable acquisitions with 

 which numismatology has been lately enriched. 



ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM. 



