80

KINGS OF BACTRIA AND INDIA

Metal
No.

0421

Obverse

Reverse

Unrepresented types:

(i) The silver hemidracbm.

B.M.Cat.., PI. XXXII. 7.
(ii) Inscriptions and obverse design as type (a), but on the reverse is

a crouching figure to r., possibly a city goddess.
Now in B. M. M

PEUKOLAOS
(a) Type: Artemis awI city goddess; copper, square

Artemis standing to front draw- j Crowned city goddess to 1.;
ing arrow from quiver at back j palm In 1. hand, and flower-like

object in r.

[Kh. legend on three sides :
3faharajasa dhramikasa tradarasa
Peukulaasa*

To L M. 95.]
G. E. PL VIII.

with r. hand.

[Greek legend on three sides :
BAZIAEHZ AIKA10Y KAI
ZOTHPOZ FIEYKOAAOY]

W. 135.
8. -85 X -75.

Unrepresented types : None.

acquired the two additional specimens of this second type -which are now in the Lahore
Museum.

Of the hemidrachni Sir Alexander Cunningham remarked that its strange types offer
nothing whatever to guide us in assigning Telephos a position either in time or place, and
that its single monogram is not found on the coins of any other Greek prince. He surmised
that Telephos may have ruled either in Peshawar or in the North-West Punjab for a few
months just prior to the reign of Hermaios.

The monogram on the hemidrachms of Telephos is not only common to them and to his
c°PPer coins of type (ct), but is also found on the biga type of the silver coins of the Indo-
Scythic ruler Maues (Moa), and on a copper coin of Maues. Copper coin type (ii) bears

A
& monogram £ which is only found elsewhere on square copper coins of Maues* As regards

design, the crouching figure on type (ii) is unique in the entire Indo-Greek series, but the
walking figure on the reverse of type (a) somewhat resembles that on the hemidrachm of
Agathokleia. The obverse copper coin design is similar to the reverse design of the silver
coins of Hermaios, and to that of the Maues silver pieces of the biga type.

We are then to look for kinship in time and place with Maues, and this agrees very
well with Cunningham's tentative conclusions.

1 This coin, is in extremely poor condition, but I have inserted the legends and mint-mark
from a fairly good specimen in the British Museum. A copper coin of Peukolaos was
published by Mr. Vincent Smith in 'Numismatic Notes and Novelties', Part III, «/.J,S,JB., 1898.