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on reverse, with club resting on his knee. One of them, which is the 
heaviest, weighing 170 grains and measuring 1", has the king’s portrait 
as shown in Brit. Mus. Cat., pi. ii, fig. 1-4. It had also an entirely Greek 
legend, which, however, is almost totally obliterated. The other four 
coins, which only weigh from 155 to 144 grains, show the king’s face 
as portrayed in Brit. Mus. Cat., pi. i, fig. 11, (also Ariana Antiqua , 
pi. i, figs. 2-4, and Rapson’s Indian Coins , pi. i, fig. 18, in the Indo- 
Aryan Encyclopedia). Both types of face, however, are very fairly 
imitated, see Plate I, Nos. 2 and 3. One of the four coins, which weighs 
144 grains (size 1"), had an entirely Greek legend, now badly effaced; 
but sufficient traces remain to show that it had the name of Heliokles 
struck over that of Euthydemus. The two names were not struck 
accurately in the same line, consequently M (of Euthydemus) is still 
seen slightly projecting over the line of Heliokles, of which latter 
name K is fully, and AI partially recognizable ; as No. 8. 
shown in the annexed woodcut; see Plate III, 11. 
The other three coins are bilingual, having the j|ty T|P 
king’s name in native Bactrian letters, while the 
title in Greek characters is seen in its usual place to the right, 
or behind the back, of the Sitting Heracles; see Plate I, Nos. 2-4. 
Of the Greek title BAXIAEHZ only the three letters 2lI> or ZIV 
(i.e., with inverted A ) together with traces of A before and E after 
them are clearly legible. 39 Coins of this description, that is, with 
the title to the right and the name in Bactrian letters to the 
left of Heracles, appear to have been found previously. Two such 
coins, from the collection of General Fox (if I understand the 
account correctly) are described by Mr. Thomas in his edition of 
Prinsep’s Indian Antiquities , vol. I, p. 32. But, so far as I know, 
none of them has ever been figured. Similar coins, but with the 
Greek and Bactrian legends transposed, that is, the title in Bactrian 
and the name (Euthydemus) in Greek, have been published. One, in 
rather good preservation, has been figured by Sir A. Cunningham in 
the Numismatic Chronicle , vol. IX (1889), pi. xiii, (also in Rapson’s 
Indian Coins , pi. i, 19). Another series of similar coins has the whole 
legend in Bactrian characters, see Numismatic Chronicle, vol. IX., 
pi. xiii, 6, also Ariana Antiqua, pi. i, 9, 10, Indian Antiquities , pi. ii, 6. 
It is probable that, as Sir A. Cunningham says ( Num . Chron., vol. IX, 
p. 307), the oldest imitations are those with Greek legends only, next 
come those with mixed legends of rude Greek and Bactrian letters, 
the latest are those with Bactrian characters only. In the second class, 
On the*photographic plates they are not so distinct as on the original. 
