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Two engravings of a similar Coin are given in the Plate published in 

 the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of the Coins belonging to 

 Colonel Tod. The numbers are omitted, but they constitute his second 

 series. Colonel Tod appears to regard them as Coins of " Mithridates, 

 his successors, or a minor dynasty in India," (Transactions R. A. S. Vol. I. 

 p. 340,) although he notices their general resemblance to the medal of 

 Eucratides, thus described by Bayer, — Caput tectum est galea, sub ea 

 frontem diademate stringi fasciae argumento sunt, quae circum cervicem 

 fluctant. In aversa duo equites cumtiarus Bactriis, ramis palmae et sa- 

 rissis. Inscriptio BA2IAE02 METAAOT ETKPATIAOT. We have in 

 two of our Coins, and in Colonel Tod's, the helmeted head and fasciae : and 

 in all three, one horseman with the Bactrian fillets, but no spear. Colonel 

 Tod says, that on his Coin the extended arm holds a hawk, but it is not 

 clear what the object is in our Coins. The general character of the head 

 is Grecian — that of the Equestrian figure Parthian or Bactrian. The 

 symbol is not noticed in Bayer's description. Colonel Tod calls it appa- 

 rently the sacerdotal instrument for feeding the sacred fire. There can be 

 little doubt that they are Bactrian Coins, and it is only a question to what 

 reign or period they belong. Schlegel is probably correct in referring 

 them to the interval between the death of Eucratides and the subversion 

 of the Bactrian kingdom.— Journal Asiatique, November, 1828. 



Plate II. Figures 26, 27, 28 and 30. 



These are different specimens of the same Copper Coin. 



Obverse. — A man in a close tunic, having on his head 

 a high cap with fillets: the general character is the same as 

 that of the figure on the Gold Coins, Plate I. Figures 2, 3, 

 &c, and so is the attitude, the right arm being extended, 

 either grasping a trophy or presenting an oblation on a fire- 



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