538 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1912. - 
called the HatakeSvara Sai Kori. Dr. Codrington in his inform- 
ing article on ‘‘The Coinages of Cutch and Kathiawar,’’ an 
article communicated to the ‘‘ Numismatic Chronicle ’’ so long 
ago as 1895, devoted a dozen lines to a description of this type 
. of coin, but his brief account closes with the frank admission, 
‘‘] have not seen a specimen.’’ Accordingly in a letter to 
Mr. Laurence Robertson, I.C.S , Administrator of the Jina- 
thereafter he was so good as to send me the solitary specimen 
unsuccessful. It is thus an especial pleasure to be able now to 
supply a photograph kindly prepared by Mr. Henry Cousens, 
M.R.A.S8., from a cast of this coin. It is noteworthy that the 
simple legends both of the Obverse and of the Reverse are 
dese throughout in the Devanagari character. They read as 
ollows :— 
Obv. sy} Rev. = =-t 
Seng Laas 
waaa: Ta? 
Obv. Sri Hatak [e] Svaraya namah; Salutation to the 
Blessed Hatakesvara. 
Rev. Sri Raghunathaji namah; Salutation to the Bless- 
ed Raghunathaji. 
The weight of the coin is 64 grains, and its diameter 
measures °55 of an inch. 
the Reverse resemble one of the conventional forms of the 
sacrosanct symbol OM 
: : In a clumsy attempt to 
comply with this request, Siva dropped from his forehead six 
) th sprang up six Brahmans. 
: : ans in process of time married Naga 
wives, and, settling with them at Vadnagar, there built a 
