1838.] Numismatology, Plate XXV III, 653 



Fig. 13, is a specimen in good relief lately sent down to me by- 

 General Allard ; there was another in the collection sent home by 

 General Court under care of M. Meifredy, of which I was favored 

 with a siuht of the drawing. On this the name on the Greek side was 

 entire, and thence I am enabled to complete my description. 



Obverse. BACIA6WC BACIA€UN M€rAAOV Vnao*€PpOV, — raja in a 

 brahmanical dress, upper part of the body naked — on the head a 

 turban (?) with flowing fillets. The small figure of victory holding a 

 chaplet over him forms the peculiarity of the device of which there are 

 yet but three samples. The monogram which was before so unintelligible 

 to us, I now recognise as a combination of two letters of the old Sanskrit 

 alphabet y and J_ m and w*. 



Reverse. Whether the figure in a brahmanical costume holding a 

 trident in the right hand and a palm branch in the left is Neptune, Siva, 

 the river Indus, or the king, I am not sufficiently initiated in the art 

 to determine. No two reverses seem to be exactly alike though formed 

 of the same materials ; the legend on the present in Bactrian is 



Maharajasa rajarajasa nandatasa jayadharasa (?) Farhetasa. 



1 do not pretend to be satisfied with the last epithet, nor with the 

 name, which however I collate with M. Court's. I have conceived it 

 possible on a former occasion that it referred to Phrahates the 

 predecessor of Vonones, or another of the same name : but there are 

 too many uncertain letters in it to build theories safely upon. At 

 any rate the same name of five letters here seen below the figure of 

 Siva, is found on all the rude coins ascribed formerly to Unad (now 

 corrected to) Undo -p her res, with exception of the penultimate letter 

 which is there always formed like any. *pf *\^% fara-etisa, (?) to 

 which T^iS nandatasa (soteros) is invariably added — on M. Court's 

 coin this epithet may be preferably read *P~l*lu great ! 



On the area are two Bactrian letters G f , which might be profanely 

 taken for < six shillings' by an uninitiated handler ! 



Fig, 14. A variety of the same group, in General Ventura's recent 

 collection. In this the horseman looks in the opposite direction, and 

 the beginning of the name TNAO^eppo is visible. The monogram is 

 composed of y and Jj, — y my a. 



On the reverse, a well clad female holding still the trident (though 

 it looks more like the cross) walks to the left — a Greek and a Bac- 

 trian monogram on either side, of complex form : legend as before, the 

 name below, 'PTtff^. 



* I may here note that fig. 14, PI. XLVI. of vol. V. is also a coin of Ttf J^ 

 Farheta, with the letters y as a central symbol. 



