1895.] Philological Secretary — Report on old coins. Gl 



Second variety ; with legends bhadra and pakandhi, 



as in Cunningham's Plate II, figure 12, p. 12'i 6 



Third variety ; with two sub-varieties : — 



1st sub- variety : legends, hha, saya and saka, as 



in Cunningham's Plate II, figure 6 3 



2nd sab- variety: legends vi, saya and saka. Not 



in Cunningham 1 



N.B. — The ya of saya, in sub-variety 1, has the 

 old tiidentate form, while in sab-variety 2, 

 it has the modern form. One specimen of 

 the 1st sub-variety reads sana for sakay 

 which is probably a mere fault of minting, 



(IX) Report on 66 old silver coins, forwarded by the Deputy Com- 

 missioner of the Shah pur District, with his No. 45, of 21st January, 1895. 



The coins are stated to have been found in the village of Khabakki. 



They belong to the so-called class of punch-marked coins, and 

 are of two different types, viz., 26 are circular aud 40 are angular 

 (square or oblong). They are fully described and figured in the late 

 Sir. A. Cunningham's Coins of Ancient India, pp. 54ff., plate I, fig. 1-19. 



(X) Report on 179 old coins, forwarded by the Deputy Com- 

 missioner of Grujranwala, with his No. 1435, dated 2nd October, 1894. 



The coins are stated to have been found in the village of Sadhu 

 Guraoja in the Gujranwala District. 



They are all small coins of mixed metal, of Muhammad Karluk 

 (Nasiru-d-din), about 658 A.H. = 1259 A.D., of the well-known type, 

 published in Prinsep's Indian Antiquities, vol. I, plate II, fig. 14 and 

 elsewhere. 



(XI) Report on 548 old copper coins, forwarded by the Collector of 



22nd 

 Puri, with his No. 1428, dated Puri, -— - September, 1893, and subse- 



quent correspondence. 



The Collector in his letter to the Commissioner of the Orissa 



Division, No. J 427, dated — — - September, 1893, states, that the coins 



were found about the beginning of March, 1893, buried in a small 

 earthen pot, 2 feet below the surface, while excavating earthworks at 

 Gurbai Salt Factory by the Salt Department at Manikaratna. He 

 reports that the villagers were of opinion, that the pieces are more a 

 kind of medal worn as armlets by women ; and he adds, that the shape 

 of some of them supports this theory, but that from the dies on them 

 it is probable that they were some ancient coins of small value. 



