18

KINGS OF BACIRIA AND INDIA

Metal
No.

Obverse

Reverse

511

52

53

rect.

M
54

55'

(e) Type: stupa and Buddhist symbol; copper ^ four-sided

Symbol

In ex., Kh. legend hitcyasame.
G. E. PL II.

Buddhist stupa, surmounted "by
star.

S. -6.

(0 Type: stupa, and tree in railing; copper, four-sided

Tree inside a railing; in e
Ivh. legend as on No. 51.

As on No. 51; In ex., Kh.
legend Akathukreycisa.

S.-7.

PL II.

Unrepresented types:

Commemorative silver medallions bearing names of
(i) AIOAOTOI mTHP. J3.jf.cw.,Pi. IV.2.

(ii) ANTIOXOZ N1KATOP. B.M. Gat, PL XXX. 5. NowinB.M.
(iii) EYOYAHMOI 6EOZ. B.K. Cat., Pi. IV. a

ANTIMACHOS THEOS
King of Baetria and N.W. Frontier

(a) Type: bust of king and Poseidon; silver, round

Diademed bust of king to r.5
wearing kansia.

W. 250.
S. 1-1.

In dotted circle, as on No. 54,

W. 260,
S. 1-2.

Poseidon standing facing, wear-
ing Mination and diadem; in r.
band long trident; under 1. arm
palm "bound with fillet,

Tor. BAZfAEnS 6EOY

Tol. ANTIMAXOY

L. M. 7. PL II.

As on No. 54, but M. 8 to r.

1 Cp. White Eingj Sale Catalogue, No. 26. The Kh. inscription used to be read Hindujasame
and interpreted 4 Lord of the Hindus * or ' Just to those born in Hind'. Biihler has pointed
out that the correct reading is hitajasame, meaning * good-fame-possessing'. This would be
a literal translation, into Prakrit of the Greek word Agathokles. See G. Biihler, 'The
Kharoshthi Inscriptions on the Indo-G-recian Coins,' Vienna Oriental Journal, 1894.

2 Several good die-struck forgeries of this coin have "been placed on the market, and
I regard this specimen with some suspicion.