1 838 . ] Numismatology, Plate XXVIII. 649 



nue* a tous les savants et voyageurs Anglais qui, depuis plusieurs 

 ann£es se sont appliques avec un zele si louable a recueillir ces pre- 

 cieux monuments de la civilization Grecque enfouis dans le sol de 

 llnde : et l'exemplaire que nous devons d, M. le general Allabd, et que 

 je publie, est encore unique. La fabrique, qui ressemble a celle de la 

 m^daille du roi anonyme, que fax fait connaitre\ , accuse sensible- 

 ment une epoque de decadence, d'accord avec la forme carree du r_ et 

 de V Q qui commencent a paraitre sur la monnaie des Arsacides, a 

 partir de Phraate III. a une epoque qui doit s'eloigner bien peu de 1' age 

 de notre Lysias. On pourrait voir un autre rapport entre cette monnaie 

 Bactrienne et les medailles du raeme prince Arsacide, dans le titre de 

 Juste, AlKAIOT) qui se lit habituellement sur les medailles de Phraate 



III mais ce qui constitue ici la particularite la plus remarquable 



et la plus neuve, e'est la qualification d' Adelphe, AAEA$Or, affectee par 

 Lysias, &c." 



When the mistake of attributing this coin to the wrong person is 

 corrected, it is curious how perfectly the observations of the learned 

 antiquarian of Paris confirm the conjecture to which I have been led by 

 the deciphering of the Bactrian legend : — the coin is that of the f son of 

 a king Spalahara or Balahara /' in bearing the effigy of Hercules it 

 agrees with the corrupted coins of Herm^eus II. and others of the 

 Pherres or Phrahetasa (Phraates ?) type, which appear to belong to 

 one family. M. R. de R. agrees with our discoverer Masson in locat- 

 ing them in an Indo-Greek dynasty at Nysa, — or near Jeldldbdd, where 

 their coins are found in the greatest abundance. 



I have purposely introduced an engraving of a very perfect speci- 

 men of this coin given to me by Mr. Trevelyan who got it from 

 Mohan Lal, as figure 3 of Plate XXVII. It it ruled by the medal- 

 ruling machine and is of course perfectly accurate, though indistinct. 



It may be remembered that the name of Vonones is not found on the 

 Bactrian side of his coins, but a totally different word, T^HQi Baluha- 

 rasa as I read it, or perhaps Baldharasa (?1KW) the patron of 



* The drawing of the very coin described by M. R. de R. was published by 

 myself in June, 1835, but I did not deem the name legible, nor has it proved 

 so at Paris, by their making Lysiou out of Spalurmou. 1 stated my reason for 

 not publishing earlier to be, that I might not forestal the As. Soc. of Paris in 

 describing General Ventura's splendid collection. 



t It is not obvious in what this great resemblance consists? — one coin is 

 square, the other round : — one has a Greek legend only ; the other a bilingual 

 one — the equestrian figure is the obverse in one, the reverse in the other. The 

 anonymous coin was first published in the Asiatic Researches in 1831, and in 

 the Journal for 1833 and 1834, 

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