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302 NUMISMATIC CHRONICLE.
Seleukus I. and Antiochus I. of Syria, and of the Bactrian
kings Euthydemus, Demetrius, Eukratides, and Heliokles.
These Bactrian imitations are by far the most numerous,
and more especially those of Euthydemus in silver, and
of Heliokles in copper. On some of the imitations of
Antiochus and Euthydemus there are native characters in
addition to the corrupt Greek names of the imitated coins.
These native legends have not yet been read. They may
be only transliterations of the Greek names, but Mr.
Thomas's attempts to read them as such were not suc-
cessful. The characters appear to me to be similar to
those on the coins of the Arsakian kings of Parthia.
On the imitation of the tetradrachms of Eukratides I
find the detached Greek letters NA. I have a cast of
a true tetradrachm with the same letters, and there is a
true coin of the same type in the British Museum. If
these letters are intended for a date, they would represent
51, or, with the centurial figure added, they would represent
151 of the Seleukidan era, equivalent to B.C. 161, which
corresponds with the early part of the reign of Eukratides.
The small silver oboli are simple copies of the coins of
Eukratides, including even the monogram.
One of the coins having the name of Heliokles, with
the figure of Zeus, is also a simple copy
both of the
obverse and reverse. But the other coin with the horse
on the reverse is perhaps original, although the horse
may have been copied from the Hermaeus.
square copper coins of
All these rude imitations of the Greek coins I attribute
to the early Indo- Scythians who conquered the countries
on the Oxus. Only a few stray specimens
are found in
the Kabul valley, and none in the Panjab. The types are
nearly all taken from the coins of the Greek kings who