82 A. F. R. Hoernle— Copper coins of Abdagases and Kadphises II. [May, 
Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle exhibited four copper coins of Abda- 
gases and Kadphises II. with new legends in Bactrian characters. He 
said: — 
The two Kadphises coins are out of a lot of 422 copper coins, 
found recently on the Kalka-Kasauli road, in the territory of the Maha¬ 
raja of Patiala. The whole of the coins was transmitted for examin¬ 
ation to Mr. C. J. Rodgers, Honorary Numismatist to the Government 
of India, in Amritsar. He found among them about 40 coins of Kanislikar 
of well-known types. The rest were coins of Kadphises II., all of them 
of the ordinary type, though of different dies, except the two, now 
exhibited. These two, Mr. Rodgers noticed, bore Bactrian legends on 
the reverse side, quite different from the usual one. He sent them 
down to me for confirmation. One of them undoubtedly shows an 
entirely different and new reading. Only one-half of the legend, on 
the right hand marginal semi-circle, is legible. It reads as follows :— 
( hegodha)sa or ( [hegosa)sa aprataha(tasa ). 
The portion enclosed in brackets is not quite distinct. It is quite 
possible that hegoclhasa which seems to give no sense is really tradatasa. 
But aprata is perfectly distinct; and tasa fairly so. One would expect 
apratihatasa, and it is possible that that is really the reading, as the 
upper part of the apparent akshara ta is rather rubbed. In any case 
the word apratihatasa forms quite certainly a part of the legend, and it 
occurs in that place of the coin which usually shows the words hima - 
kapigasa (see Br. Mus. Cat., pi. xxv., fig. 12). The Bactrian letters of 
these two sets of words could not easily be mistaken for one another. 
The legend, therefore, on this coin, is certainly a new one. In its entirety 
it probably reads :— 
Maharajasa rajadirajasa tradatasa apratihatasa. 
The term apratihata has hitherto never been found on any of the 
coins of Kadphises II. It occurs, however, on the coins of Gondophares 
and Ranjabala, who must have been nearly contemporary with him. 
A variety of it also occurs on the earlier coins of Lysias, Artemidorus 
and Philoxenus. 
With regard to the other Kadphises coin, I am not quite so certain. 
Nearly the whole of the Bactrian legend is obliterated. There are 
only three letters that admit of being read at all. They stand in 
the middle of the right-hand margin, near the bull’s head, wTiere 
ordinarily the letters of the word himakapigasa come in. They now 
seem to read sa maya , but they are slightly mutilated and rubbed ; they 
stand exactly in the place of himaka , and on the whole the probability is 
