8 GREEK KINGS OF BACTEIA AND INDIA

One specimen Is Illustrated among the coins supplementary to this
Section.

The Collection now catalogued is fine and up to date, and
contains many rarities. It is weakest in the coins of the Bactrian
kings, but the deficiencies are not great. The issues of the Greek
princes of India are very well represented indeed. Attention Is
directed to the fine silver coins of Hippostratos, nearly all of
which came from the Bleazby Collection. Notable pieces are the
unique club coin of Theophilos, the copper coins of Telephos, the
unique coins of Polyxenos, the silver pieces of Epander, Artemidoros,
Nikias, and Apollophanes, and others. Several of these appear In
a catalogue for the first time. The pieces of Andragoras, described
In the British Museum Catalogue, do not properly belong to the
Bactrian series, so the only coinages unrepresented here are those of
Sophytes and Plato. Issues of these rulers, and the coin of Eukra-
tides bearing the names of his parents, Heliokles and Laodike, which
Is also absent from the Museum, are Illustrated In the Supplementary
Plate.

A rigid exclusion of forgeries and doubtful coins has led to the
rejection of a large number of specimens. The great extent to which
Greek Bactrian coins are forged is well known. Fortunately for the
collector, the forger as a rule confines his energies to making casts of
known specimens, especially of Bactrian tetradrachms and Indian
didrachms. On the other hand, I have seen several good die-struck
Imitations, especially of the tetradrachms of Antlmachos Theos, and
of those medallions of Agathokles which bear the portrait of DIodotos
Soter. Nearly all the very rare copper coins are forged, especially
the scarce copper types of Menander. In the Supplementary Lists
I have made brief Indications in the cases of those coins which are
extensively Imitated.