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Siva Simha and PramatheSvarl is given by Mr. Allan as Fig. 

 15, Plate XXIII, of his paper. On Plate XXVI will also be found a 

 reproduction of a half-coin of Sarve&varl, dated R. Y . 29. Of Mr. 

 Botham's coins the following, reproduced on Plate XXVII, may- 

 be referred to. The curious quarter-coin with apparently regnal 

 year 4 on the reverse struck in the name of PramatheSvarl as 

 consort of Siva Simha ; the rupee of Siva Simha alone dated 

 1654 and R.Y. 18; a half rupee of Ambika dated R.Y. 19 (the 

 latter may be compared with the similar coin of her successor, 

 from the Daflating find already referred to) ; and the last rupee of 

 S'iva Simha' s reign, dated 1666 and R.Y. 31, that was issued by 

 SarveSvarl. It may also be noted in connexion with Siva 

 Simha's coins that he began by following his father in using the 

 old form of *t, ' -*r, •' on his coins. The more modern form 

 as already employed on the coins of Pratapa and Chakradhvaja 

 re-appeared, however, as soon as Phule^vari began to strike 

 coins, and thenceforward the old form is no longer found. 1 

 The square coin of 1651 seems to have been modelled on the 

 coins of Manipur, as Prinsep (Useful Tables, p. 274) mentions 

 square coins of the Manipur King Charairongba, dating appa- 

 rently from 1634 S'aka. 



The fullest account of the coinage of S'iva Simha and his 

 Queens will be found in Mr. Allan's paper. In addition to the 

 usual coins, quarter-muhurs are also found. The inscriptions 

 follow in the main those of Rudra Simha, but in the Queens' 

 coins, owing to the necessity of referring to two people, the 

 phraseology is somewhat different. The quarter-coins of the 

 Queens are either undated or give only the current regnal year 

 of the King. 



Pramatta Simha. 



The coinage of this King needs no special reference. His 

 Sanskrit coinage starts with rupees of 1667, of which the re- 

 verse reads Sri Sri Hara Gauri char ana kamala madhukarasya . 

 This means the same as the inscription on the older coins. 

 From the coin in Ahom script already referred to, he appears, 

 however, to have been installed immediately after Siva Simha's 

 death in 1666. Half-muhurs occur for the first time, but there 

 is no reason to suppose that they were not also minted by his 

 immediate predecessor. The muhur of 1669 in Mr. Botham's 

 Cabinet is struck from the same die as the rupees of that year. 

 Pramatta's last coins are dated 1673. 



Rajesvara Simha. 



The coinage of this King is interesting for the variety^that 

 it displays. At his accession in 1673 he struck money in Ahoin 



1 <?/. Fig. 10, Siva Simha's rupee dated 1644, with Fig. 14— Phules- 

 van srupeedated 1646— Plate XXIII of Mr. Allan's paper, Num. Chron., 



