A. F. K. Hoernle —Gold Coins from Jalalabad. [April, 
as curiosities, but the Indo-seythian coins must have been deposited as those 
current in the country. The notice by the author of the Penplus 
that in his time, the end of 1st century A. D., the drachms of Menand¬ 
er and Apollodotus, two Indo-grecian kings who reigned from about 
250 _100 B. C., were still current at Baroach on the coast of Gujarat 
(see Wilson’s A. A. 281), gives an approximate limit of about 2C0 years, 
during which the coins of a king may be supposed to have remained cur¬ 
rent. Of the three Indo-seythian kings, whose coins have been found in 
the Tope, the two later ones are Kanerki and Hverki. They are generally 
placed in the first half of the first century A. D. Adding to this 200 years 
for the currency of their coins, the forward limit of time for the construc¬ 
tion of the Tope would be the first half of the third century A. D. It is a 
noteworthy fact, that no Bactro-Grecian coin has ever been found in any 
Tope (see Wilson’s A. A., 43) ; nor any Indo-Grecian, except of. the last 
king of that line, Hermaeus, whose rule was subverted by the Scythian prince 
Kadphises in the first century B. C.; while foreign coins are often met with 
in them in conjunction with native ones. The omission cannot be well 
explained otherwise but by supposing (as Wilson A. A., 44), that they had 
ceased to be current at the time when the Topes were erected. It follows, 
then, that the coins which are found in the Topes must have been placed 
in them, as being contemporary and current, whether native and common 
(as the Indo-seythian) or foreign and rare (as the Eoman). 
2. On JCadphises .—The kings Kanerki and Hverki are admitted 
by all to be later than Kadphises, and placed in the first half of the 
first century A. D. As to Kadphises, it is commonly thought that 
there were two rulers of that name, one in the beginning, the other towards 
the end of the first century B. 0. ; and the present coins of Kadphises 
are ascribed to the second of that name. Some even distinguish a third 
one, called Kadaphes, a contemporary of the first Kadphises (so Lassen). 
The subject is involved in much obscurity, owing to the data, which we 
have, being in part not easy to understand, in part difficult to reconcile. 
So far as I can judge them, there does not appear to he sufficient ground 
to distinguish three or even two men. The coins of the (so-called) first 
Kadphises and of Kadaphes are all of copper and badly preserved. The 
reading of their legend is by no means assured. Even if it were so, the 
two names are not sufficiently unlike to preclude the identity of the persons 
to whom they belonged. As regards the two Kadphises, the evidence, such 
as it is, rather seems to me to point to their unity. For (1) there 
is a striking resemblance in the figures on the reverse of their coins, 
as pointed out on p. 123. The coins of the last Indo-Greek king Hermaeus 
have on the reverse a sitting Jupiter ; in those of Kadphises I, his place is 
