098 Coins of Indian Buddhist Satraps. [No. 7. 



Ariana Antiqua PI. VII. fig. 11, and Jas. Prinsep's Journal, Vol. IV e 

 PI. XXII. figs. 6, 7 and 8. The two legends in the accompanying 

 plate are from specimens in my own cabinet. Pig. 21, is a small 

 coin weighing 64 grains ; but it is the best executed specimen that 

 I have seen of this type. Fig. 22, is a middle-sized coin, much 

 corroded, but with the legend in better preservation than usual : 

 weight 166 grains. 



Obverse. A humped bull. Greek legend, usually incomplete and 

 illegible. On fig. 21, however, it begins with BACI, and ends with 

 A0OY, or AMOY. 



Reverse. A two humped Bactrian camel. Ariano Pali legend? 

 always imperfect ; but on fig. 22, the following portion of the inscrip- 

 tion is in fine preservation. Maharajasa A — 



By a comparison of the two legends, they may be completed 

 respectively as follows : 



BACUews ao-Ka /3AOOY (or AMOY.) 



Maharajasa Aswapate (or Varmasa.) 



" (Coin) of king Aswapati (or Aswavarma)." 



The style of these coins is unusually rude, and the legends are 

 always corrupt and defective. It is barely possible that they may 

 belong to Aswavarma, the victorious; but as his coins, though 

 executed in a stiff hard style, are generally in good preservation and 

 very nearly complete in their legends, other specimens of these 

 camel coins are much required for comparison, before we can venture 

 to attribute them satisfactorily. 



Mg. 23, is the inscription on a copper seal procured in the Punjab 

 by Mr. Bayley. As the letters are reversed, this seal most pro- 

 bably belonged to one of these Indian satraps, who must have used 

 it for stamping and authenticating his public documents. The 

 Ariano Pali legend, has not been satisfactorily made out, but it 

 appears to be 



Sivasena chatrapa Atri naram Pathanavare. 

 " (Sealed) by Sivasena, of the race of Atri, Satrap of Pothowar ?" 



The satrap's name may perhaps be Sivapa, as the opening letters 

 may also be read Sivapena, instead of Sivasena. Atrinaram may be 

 intended for "a man of the race of Atri," although such a form of 

 expression is certainly unusual. Pathanaware, I think, may more 



