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² In a review of vol. I of Whitehead’s *Lahore Catalogue*, *JRAS* 1914 p. 793, he said: ‘A close examination of the plates and of three specimens in my possession fails to confirm the presence of a sword, the horizontal line to the right being probably part of the seat. The attitude of the figure seems to justify its identification as a seated Buddha, very like the seated Buddha on Kanishka’s coin’, *BMC* Pl. XXXII, 14. ‘If this attribution is correct it is probably the earliest appearance of Buddha in coinage.’ I note that V. A. Smith, *India Mus. Catalogue* p. 40, left it open whether the figure is a king or a god.