DESCRIPTION OF SELECT COINS. 579 



Parthian kings, and the costume of the principal figure and the worship of 

 fire, if that is the subject of the die, appear favourable to his view. It is 

 by no means clear, however, that a fire-altar is intended to be represented, 

 and the general effect is more that of a military trophy, indicative of the 

 Greek or Scythian conquest of India. The symbol belongs to Bactria, if, 

 as is most likely, No. 1 be a Bactrian Coin. The name, it is true, is of a 

 barbaric aspect, if rightly decyphered ; but Schlegel admits that he can 

 make nothing of the letters which immediately precede it, IHPNI6IC, and 

 his separation of Edobigris from them cannot be unhesitatingly and unre- 

 servedly admitted. The character of the reverse, however, leaves no 

 doubt that whether Parthian or Indo-Scythic, the Coin was the work of a 

 prince, of whose dominion the seat was India. 



The first of these specimens is from a drawing of a Coin in the Cabi- 

 net of the late Mr. Edwards : the second is in the possession of Mr. Prin- 

 sep, and was found at Chunar : the two last, with several others less dis- 

 tinct, are in the Society's collection. 



Plate II. Figure 29. 



A Copper Coin. 



This, although smaller and of ruder execution, appears to be allied to 

 the preceding, especially by the reverse, on which we have the standing 

 figure and the bull. The Coin is one of many found amongst the ruins of 

 Dipaldinna, by the late Colonel Mackenzie. 



Plate II. Figures 31, 32, 33 and 34. 



Copper Coins. 



Obverse. — A male figure, resembling, in costume and 

 attitude, that on the preceding Coins, — the right arm, how- 

 ever, is extended nearly in a straight line, and in place of the 

 trophy, or altar, is the common symbol, or key with four 



