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Cunningham, and the other to Mr. L. White King. 1 The coin now 
published is, therefore, the third known specimen. 
Cunningham called the figure on the obverse Apollo, and that on 
the reverse Demeter. I cannot say whether or not the figures were 
the same as those on Mr. Rawlins’ coin. I cannot find the obverse 
figure on any other Bactrian coin. 
The reverse figure is that of a turreted personified city, as on the 
square bronze coins of Hippostratus, with Triton obv. ( B . M. Catal., 
p. 60, PI. XIV, 6). The mon. on the coin of Mr. Rawlins’ is the 
same as that on the coin of Hippostratus with horseman reverse (ibid. 
PI. XIV, 6). 
It is clear, therefore, that Peukelaus was approximately contem¬ 
porary with Hippostratus. 
The legends AIKAloY KAI XQTHPoX, and dhramilcasa tradatasa 
indicate that the period of Hippostratus and Peukelaus is not far re¬ 
moved from that of Menander. The same inference is suggested by the 
use in the Greek legend of the minute dot form of omikron. 
The early part of the Greek legend is illegible, but the word 
XQTHP°X can be read, and most of the letters of the KharosthI legend 
can be made out on the original coin. The king’s name is certain, 
flEYK, in Greek, and Peiik in KharosthI, being distinct. 
The name Peukelaus necessarily recalls to the mind that of the 
city Peukelaitis or Peukelaotis, mentioned by several Greek writers. 
Arrian tells us that in the dominions of the Assakenoi (probably the 
A^vakas) there was a great city called Massaka, the capital, and that, 
there was another city of great size, called Peukela’itis, not far from the 
west bank of the Indus. 8 
This city seems to be the same which is described by Hiuen Tsiang 
under the name of Po-slii-kie-lo-fa-ti, or Puskalavati, which was situa¬ 
ted across a great river about 9 miles (50 li) north-east of Kaniska’s 
famous monastery at or near Peshawar. The “ great river ” must be 
the Kabul. The distance stated by the Chinese pilgrim indicates that 
the site is to be looked for at the Nicetta or Nisattha of the maps rather 
than at Hashtnagar, where it is placed by Cunningham. 3 
If Peukela’itis and Puskalavati are identical, which is not exactly 
proved, it seems quite possible that the Greek name may be derived 
from the name of the king Peukelaus, and not, as has hitherto been 
assumed, from a Prakrit form of Puskalavati. 
1 Num. Chronicle for 1896, p. 269. 
8 McCrindle “ Megasthenes and Arrian,” p. 180. Arrian was born about A.D. 
90, and lived to an advanced age. The date of king Menander is approximately 
B.C. 100. 
8 “ Reports ” II, 90 j XIX, 96-110: Vivien de St. Martin in Julien’s Hiouen 
Thsang, III, 308. 
