JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I.—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
No. I.—1897. 
Numismatic Notes and Novelties (Ancient and Mediaeval India).—By 
Vincent A. Smith, I. C. S. 
(With Plate I.) 
L 
IXDO-BACTRIAlSh 
Theophilus, 
L Club type. 
Square, copper, thick ; diameter *75. Wt. 117 grains. [Rawlins.] 
Obv. Bust of king to r., apparently bare-headed, in high relief. BASIAERS 
AIKAloY OEo[0IAoY] 
Rev. In field, upright club (as in Menander’s coin, B. M. Cat., p. 50, PI. XII, 
6), and a small square. KharosthI legend, Maharajasa ,[ dhramiJcasa ] 2'heuphilasa. 
Some of the letters are peculiar in form. 
This coin is a novelty, and at present unique. The only specimens 
of the coinage of Theophilus hitherto known are the two described in 
B. M. Cat., p. 167 ( Supplement ), PI. XXXI, 3* 4, which were in 
Cunningham’s cabinet. Of these, the silver coin, which is circular, has 
a bust resembling that of the coin now described, and on the reverse, 
Herakles crowning himself. The copper coin, like the new discovery, 
is square, but has on obverse the bust of bearded Herakles with club on 
shoulder, and for reverse device a cornucopiae. 
The specimen of the cornucopiae type in the Lahore Museum 
( Cat Part III, 21), is “ not genuine.” 
J, i. 1 
