1894.] Pliilologieal Secretary — Brports on Old Coins. 57 



6. Typo and mint tlie same, date ****, almd, a half- 

 rupee 1 9 



5. SuAii 'Alam, type as in Brit. Miis. Cat., No. IIGO, 



mint 'Azimabad, date 1174, 2^ 2 



Grand Total ... 31 



II. Report on 14 old gold coins forwarded by the Collector of 

 Muzaffarpur, with his No. 914R., dated 9th September 1893. 



These coins are stated to have been found by a boy " among* brick 

 rubbles in a small walled enclosure near Kunahra Ghat, in the Bazar 

 of Hajipur, on the 2nd or 3rd August 1893," Altogether 22 coins were 

 found, but only 14 of them could be recovered fi'om the finder. 



They are coins of the following three kings of the earlier Gupta 

 dynasty : Chandra Gupta I., who reigned from about 360-380 A. D., 

 Samudra Gupta, who reigned fi'om about 380-395 A. D., and Chandra 

 Gupta II., who reigned from about 395-415 A. D. 



1, The coin of Chandra Gupta I. belongs to the King-and- 

 Qneen type, one specimen, 113 grs., (Smith's Catalogue, plate I, 

 figure 1) , 1 



2, The coins of Samudra Gupta belong to the following 

 types: Arclier, one specimen, weight 115 grs. (S. Cat., pi. 1., 

 fig. 10) — Battle-axe, 1 specimen, 113 grs., (S. Cat., pi. I, fig, 11 ), 

 — Javelin., 2 specimens, 116 and 120 grs., (S. Cat., pi. I, fig. 7). 



Total...... 4 



3, The coins of Chandra Gupta II. belong to the following 

 types : Archer, Class I, 2 specimens, 122 and 124 gr., (S. Cat., 

 pi. 1, fig. 14, hut "bow-string inwards"), — Archer, Class II., 

 1 specimen, 121 grs. (S. Cat., pi. I., fig. 16), — Vmbrella, 2 speci- 

 mens, 122 grs. each, (S. Cat., pi. II., fig. 8), — Umbrella, new 

 variety (Goddess walking to left, with fillet in right hand), 

 1 specimen, 123 gi'S. (not in S. Cat.) ; — Combatant Lion, 3 speci- 

 mens 121, 122, and 123 grs. (S. Cat., pi. II., fig. 5), Total 9 



Total ... 14 



III. Report on 890 old copper coins, forwarded by the Political 

 Superintendent of Palanpur, with his No. 2861, dated 16th October 1893. 



The coins are stated to have been found in the old Padar of 

 Khenana, a village in the Kankrig Taluk under the Palanpur Super- 

 intendency. 



With the exception of 5 Indo-Sassanians they ai'e all coins of 

 the following early Sultans of Delhi (so-called Pathans) : Ghiyasu- 



