The Coins of the Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and India in the British Museum

The Coins of the Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and India in the British Museum

The present volume contains all the coins which were issued by the Greek and Scythic kings who ruled in India and the neighbouring lands between the time of Alexander the Great and the third century a.d. The work has been long and laborious, alike to compiler, editor, and printer. The number of unusual characters which it contains has greatly hindered its progress ; but the typographical difficulties have not been the only ones. The history of the kings is very obscure, and the types employed on their coins often of a mixed and uncertain character. On the other hand, few fields of numismatics offer richer material, historical, archaeological, and even philological; though philological theories are necessarily excluded from these pages.

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Table of Contents:

Copyright

THE COINS OF THE GREEK AND SCYTHIC KINGS OF BACTRIA AND INDIA

EDITOR'S PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF PLATES

INTRODUCTION

I. HISTORICAL OUTLINES

II. INSCRIPTIONS

III. MONOGRAMS

IV. TYPES

V. WEIGHTS

NORMAL WEIGHTS OF COINS

TABLE

KINGS OF BACTRIA AND INDIA

ANDRAGORAS

SOPHYTES

DIODOTUS

EUTHYDEMUS I

DEMETRIUS

EUTHYDEMUS II

PANTALEON

AGATHOCLES

ANTIMACHUS

EUCRATIDES

PLATO

HELIOCLES

ANTIALCIDAS

LYSIAS

DIOMEDES

ARCHEBIUS

APOLLODOTUS I

APOLLODOTUS II

STRATO I

AGATHOCLEIA

MENANDER

EPANDER

DIONYSIUS

ZOILUS

APOLLOPHANES

ARTEMIDORUS

ANTIMACHUS II

PHILOXENUS

NICIAS

HIPPOSTRATUS

AMYNTAS

HERMAEUS

RANJABALA

MAUES

AZES

AZILISES

SPALAHORES

SPALAGADAMES

SPALIRISES

GONDOPHARES

ABDAGASES

ORTHAGNES

PACORES

ZEIONISES

UNCERTAIN KINGS

SANABARES

BASILEUS

HERAUS

HYRCODES

KINGS OF UNCERTAIN NAMES

KADPHISES

KADAPHES

KANERKES

HOOERKES

BAZODEO

SUPPLEMENT

INDEX

REMARKABLE INSCRIPTIONS AND LEGENDS