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26. NUMISMATIC SUPPLEMENT No. XXVI. 
Note.—The numeration of the articles below is continued 
from p. 251 of the ‘Journal and Proceedings ”’ 
for 1915. 
152. Tar AsvamepHa Corns oF SAMUDRAGUPTA. 
In October, 1913, the United Provinces Government pre- 
sented to the Lucknow Provincial Museum some gold coins of 
Samudragupta found at Kaswara in the Ballia district. They 
included a coin of the Asvamedha type which possessed a spe- 
cialinterest in that the obverse sh 1 hat distinctly acon- 
tinuation of the hitherto published legend found on such coins. 
In March, 1914, I was fortunate in obtaining another specimen 
of this type which gave practically the full obverse legend, and 
I prepared a note on these two coins with a view to publication. 
But the appearance of a note by Mr. Campbell! on the Ballia 
coin and another later by Mr. J. Allan of the British Museum 
publishing the full legend with an interpretation in the Numis- 
matic Supplement No. XXIII, Vol. X, No. 6, 1914, pp. 255-6 
issued in October, 1914, rendered it advisable to withhold my 
paper. An interpretation of the legend was however given in 
the Annual Report of the Lucknow Museum which appeared in 
June, 1914.2 
In November, 1914, I obtained another good specimen of 
the same type from a goldsmith of Etawah. Though the 
obverse legend on it is not complete, yet the portion that exists 
is clear and well preserved. te 
n this set of Samudragupta coins of the Asvamedha type 
which have recently been noticed by Messrs. Campbell and 
Allan or are being published now there are at least two distinct 
varieties. Full particulars of Dr. Hoey’s coins are not known 
to t the specimens which I have obtained, i.e. one at 
Lucknow and the other from Etawah, are certainly strack from 
different dies. I publish both here, calling them A and B (A 
weighs 115 grs. and B 117 grs. only). : 
The style of lettering they display is different—the difference 
being more marked in the reverse legend. Pennons on the sacri- 
cial post of Yipa, the chowrie as well as the sacrificial spear 
and the fillet are all differently cut. The beading on the reverse 
1 J.A.S.B., Vol. X, No.5, 194, Numismatic Supplement No. XXII, 
p- 174, 
* Annual Report on the working of the Lucknow Provincial Museum 
for the year ending 3lst March, 1914, p.3. There I read prithivim. Iwill 
not, however, add any anusvara now, but make this word the first compo- 
nent of the compound forming one epithet, viz. prithivi-vijitva 
