1920.] Numismatic Supplement No. XXXIII. 89 
K. N. Drxsuarr. 
209. A NEW GOLD Coin oF CHANDRAGUPTA II. 
Metal—A/. 
Weight—121 grains. 
Provenance—Mirzapur, U.P. 
—King, nimbate, standing left; wearing a turban 
adorned with some ornament above the ‘forehead, coat and 
trousers and the usual jewellery consisting of ear-rings, neck- 
lace (?) and armlets. He holds a bow, with the string out- 
w ards, by the middle, in the left hand and an arrow (?) in the 
ight. ‘‘ Chandra” is written vertically to the right outside 
the string. The marginal legend beginning — the proper 
left reads Déva- re “maha hai A sites part of the complete legend 
Deva Sri Sr guptal sense usually 
on the archer type. 
Rev.—Goddess (Lakshmi), nimbate, seated facing on lotus, 
holding a fillet in her outstretched right hand and a lotus with 
a long. stalk in the left. There are traces of a border of dots 
aaeee 
onthetop — To the left is the monogram Ce and to the right 
the legend Sri Vikrama h. 
obverse corresponds with the specimen in the tet 
‘Museum published as Var. y', but the reverse has a lotus 
stead of a throne seat, and a such presents an fatntenting new 
variety of the archer type formed by the combination of an 
obverse and reverse which are known separately.” 
This coin belongs to the Mirzapur find of 1910 and has not 
apparently been noticed. 
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PrayaG DAYAL. 
| See Allan, Coins of the Gupta Dynasty, p. 25. 
2 Do. do. Pl. V1, 5 and 10. 
