164

INDO-PARTHIAN" KINGS

Metal
No.

M

116

117

118

Obverse

Reverse

Type: bust of king and standing figure, with Greek
inscription only; silver', round

Within dotted border, bust of
king to r.

W. 11.

S. 45.

W. 11.

S. 45.

Unrepresented type :

Bust of king.
Cunningham, PL IX, 3.
A doubtful attribution,
Two coins in B. M.

M

Standing figure.

Greek legend-----IAIIHO - -

---DIIANDY

G. B.

Same design, but Greek legend
reads ---IAIOY--- IANOY
G. B. PL XVI.

Horseman with Nike flying after
him.

HYRKODES 1

(a) Type: bust of king and standing figure, Greek legend
only; silver, round

Diademed bust of king to r.
Tol. YPKWAOY

W. 30.
S. «6.

Draped figure standing to front
with long sceptre or spear in r.
hand; flames issuing from shoul-
ders.

To r. - - - OYKYO - - -

indo-arischen PMMogie und Altsrtumskunde), to which may now be added Mr. J. Kennedy's
recent note in J.R.A.S^ 1913, pp. 124-7. Cunningham remarks that these coins are
altogether exceptional, as they consist entirely of tetradrachms and obols. He should have
qualified this observation owing to his own tentative attribution of a copper coin to Heraos. The
Parthian style of the bust on the tetradrachm, together with the design of the king on horse-
back accompanied by the flying Nike, connect this currency with that of the Indo-Parthians,
amongst which I have put it. On the other hand Prof. Gardner held that Heraos was a king
of the Sakas owing to the presence of the word he read as S AK A. Yet again we have the
additional epithet which may be Interpreted as Kushanou, and Heraos then becomes a
Kushan ruler, as held by Mr. Vincent Smith—1. M. Cat., vol. i.

While the tetradrachm is Parthian in style, the obols appear to have been directly
imitated from those of the early Bactrian rulers.

1 A word of explanation is required here as to why the coins of Hyrkodes and the other
rulers placed after him in this Catalogue, have been included in this section. I have placed
Hyrkodes and Phseigacharis with Heraos because of similarity of the types. The coins of
Bajula, of the two Odumbara rajahs, and the Indo-Chinese coins are of approximately the same
period, and have been included because they were In the Collections from which the present
Cabinet was formed, and though worthy of record, would otherwise have remained uncata-
logued. I have separately noted other points of interest.