PREFACE

THIS volume describes the Collection of Indo-Greek coins
In the Lahore Museum, Panjab, India, I have applied the
term Indo-Greek to the issues of the Greek Kings of Bactria
and India, and of their contemporaries and immediate
successors in North-West India, who struck money bearing
legible Greek inscriptions. These were the Indo-Scythic and
Indo-Parthian dynasties, and the Great Kushans, down to
and including Vasu Deva.1

The coins in the Lahore Museum were contained in two
separate Collections. One was the Government Collection
proper, and the other was the Cabinet of Mr, 0. J. Kodgers?
a well-known figure in Indian numismatics, a Collection which
was purchased by the Panjab Government, Mr, Rodgers
prepared Catalogues under official auspices, both of the
Government Collection and,, of his own Cabinet; and these
were printed at the Baptist^ Mission Press, Calcutta, in the
years 1892 to 1894. Neither work was illustrated, a fact
which has detracted much from their value.

In the, Preface to one of the Parts of his Catalogue,
Mr. Rodgers mentions the fact that at the beginning of his
career as a coin collector, he specialised in the issues of the
Indo-Greeks. But he found that they were so difficult to
obtain, and that such a large outlay was necessary for their
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1 The epithet Indo-Greek, to be strictly accurate, is only applicable to
the coins of the Greeks in India and on the Indian Frontier. It cannot coyer

the Kushans, except in the abbreyiated sense in which I haye used it in the
title of this work.

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