



578 DESCRIPTION OF SELECT COINS. 



altar: a trident stands on his right, and a sword or club 

 appears to be attached to his left : an inscription occupies 

 the whole margin, the first part of which is like the following, 

 f(\OOonqo9 K |f»r*. This is tolerably distinct in 

 No. 26 only : in the others the letters are obliterated. 



Reverse. — A female figure standing in front of a bull, 

 in the 26th figure is very distinct; it is less so in the others : 

 the bull is characteristically Indian, having the hump on his 

 shoulders : an inscription similar to that on the obverse 

 occurs : above the tail of the bull also recurs the symbol 

 so frequent in the preceding Coins, — the key with three 

 points. 



A Coin exactly similar to these is the first of the third series of Colo- 

 nel Tod's plate, who thus describes it — : " No. 10, represents a priest or king 

 sacrificing : his head is adorned with the high cap of the Magi, and he is 

 feeding the flame on a low altar : a club is placed in his left : of several in 

 my possession, though we distinctly read of the King of kings preserver, 

 and on another of the Great King of kings, yet no proper name can be 

 discovered : on the reverse is the sacred bull with a man, perhaps the sacri- 

 ficing priest, and the epigraphe is in the Sassanian character." Colonel 

 Tod assigns the Coins to the successors of Mithridates, like the preced- 

 ing. Schlegel's Commentary upon Colonel Tod's Coin, the epigraphe of 

 which, as it appears in the plate, is very legible, discovers in the characters 

 preceding BACIAG USBACIAGnN the name G AOBITPIC, Edobigris, which 

 he regards as the appellation of a Tartar Khan, one of the Indo-Scythian, 

 who succeeded to the domination of the Bactrian kings, and ruled over 

 the provinces along the Indus, from the Punjab to the Gulph of Cambay, 

 about the commencement of the Christian era. Colonel Tod considers 

 them to be of Parthian origin, whilst the Bactrian kingdom was subject to 



