1881.] A. Cunningham —Relics from Ancient Persia. 185 
Figs. 6 and 7 are flat-bladed arrow heads showing two different modes 
of attaching the head to the shaft. 
Figs. 8, 9 and 10 are shouldered or barbed arrow heads. 
Figs. 11 to 16 are three-edged arrow heads. They are all holloV, 
and each has a small hole on one side for fastening the head to the shaft 
by a cord. Similar arrow heads were found by Morier in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Persepolis. # 
Since this paper was written I have received the first number of Yol. I, 
of the 3rd Series of the Numismatic Chronicle, containing Mr. Percy 
Gardner’s second notice of some “ Coins from Central Asia,” including the 
silver tetradrachma of Andragoras, of which I possess a duplicate. Mr. 
Gardner is inclined to think that the coins of king Lysimachus, of Tarsus, 
Sinope, Aspendus and Ephesus, were probably picked up by the collector 
on the road from the Oxus to India. This opinion is, however, directly 
opposed to the statements of the collectors themselves, as made to Mr. Grant 
in 1877-78, and as made to me yearly from 1878 up to the present time. 
In fact, I have received the impressions of many of these coins just as they 
were obtained on the Oxus, in letters from Khulm. So far as I have observed 
there are no western coins in the Oxus find of a later date thail Alexander 
the Great, and as the soldiers of Alexander’s army must have carried with 
them numerous coins from many different places in Greece, I would suggest 
this as a simple and reasonable explanation of their occurrence in this great 
deposit. The collectors separated without any hesitation all the coins 
obtained at other places. These comprised many specimens of Euthy- 
demus, Eukratides and Heliokles, with one or two of Demetrius and a 
single coin of Agathokles. I have remarked that not a single Parthian 
coin has been found amongst the numbers that I have seen from the Oxus 
deposit. 
Postscript. 
Since the above was put in type, I have received another small 
batch of coins from the Oxus. With these there were in addition 7 gold 
coins and 11 silver tetradrachmas, all of which were taken possession of 
by Abdul .Rahman’s Collector of Customs at Kabul. Amongst the gold 
coins there is said to have been one of Pharnaspes. 
The following is a list of the coins that were brought to me, most 
of which have passed into my collection. Amongst them there are no 
coins of a later date than the time of Euthydemus and Antiochus the 
Great. The continued absence of any Parthian coins also points to a date 
preceding the reign of Mithridates I., whose coins are so common. 
* See Kawlinson’s Ancient Monarchies, III, 175, 2nd edit. 
