Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c20.13

c20.13

**§ 31. Vonones, Azes.** — As Vonones strikes coins together with Azes, the successor of Maues, his date is probably, c. 100 B.C. What the exact relations between these two ruling families of Śakas or Śaka-Parthians were, it is unpossible to say; but it is noticeable that, whenever they strike coins in common, the members of Vonones' family invariably occupy the obverse, and the members of Maues' family the reverse. To judge from other analogous instances in ancient numismatics, this fact would seem to show that the former exercised some sort of lordship over the latter.