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ed upon a large work on the " Coins of Alexander's Successors in the 



East," I think it needless now to say more than that the new types, 



which will appear in that work, are more than equal in that number to 



those already known. 



A. Cunningham. 



On the Gem and Coins, figured as Nos. 7 and 8 in the preceding Plate, and 

 on a Gem belonging to the late Edward Conolly. By the Editor. 



I have already, on more than one occasion, been enabled to place in 

 juxta position, (though but with a casual remark,) relics of antique art 

 found in Central Asia, and similar remains discovered in Europe ; the 

 former bearing too remarkable an affinity to the latter to allow of our 

 doubting, that they were the work of a people who had attained the 

 same standard of excellence in arts and sciences, who thought alike on 

 matters of religion, and who were ruled and influenced by similar super- 

 stitions. I have been much impressed with this fact by other casual 

 discoveries of a like nature, which have in a manner forced themselves 

 on me, but which, as isolated, and perhaps to many, trivial instances of 

 resemblance, hardly merited a separate and individual notice. There is, 

 however, I am certain, a new and most interesting field of investigation 

 open to the Antiquary, in the comparison of such identities and resem- 

 blances. Time, opportunity of research, and a sound knowledge of 

 Asian antiquities are required for the conduct of such enquiry ; and one 

 who possesses none of these indispensable requisites, can do no more, 

 when he stumbles on some startling fact, than cast the glimmer of his 

 single discovery upon the darkness of an untried subject, in order to 

 tempt the capable to venture on the novel path which he himself cannot 

 follow. It remains to be seen, whether the instances which I will now 

 lay before my readers, may not encourage the competent investigator to 

 turn his mind to the task, with strong hopes of success in the effectua- 

 tion of singular discoveries. 



My friend Lieut. Cunningham has, with his usual care and ingenuity, 

 taken occasion to illustrate by a gem in the possession of Mr. Tregear, 

 the singular obverse of the coin of Telephus Euergetes, No. 8 of the 

 preceding plate. The singular impression of this gem, used as the 



