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Class III, with crescent on reverse in right top of field : — 

 Variety 1 (PI. II, fig. 9) : ohv., r. arm pointing down, 1. 



arm raised ; rev., r. arm pointing down, 1. arm a-kimbo 258 

 Variety 2 PI. II, fig. 10) : ohv. and rev., r, arm raised, 1. 



arm pointing down 50 



)8, Variety 3: ohv. and rev., both arms bent at elbow 



at right angles, r. upward, 1. downwards I 



309 



Class IV, with crescent on both obverse and reverse -. — 



Variety ] : crescent on r. top of obverse, and 1. top of 

 reverse : — 



Sub- variety a: obv.y r. arm pointing down, 1. arm 



raised; rev., r. level, 1. arm a-kimbo 9 



Sub-variety b (PI. II, fig. 11): ohv., both arms level; 



rev., r. arm level, 1. arm pointing down 5 



Variety 2 : ohv. and rev., crescent on 1. top ; also ohv. 



and rev., r. arm pointing down, 1. arm raised 1 



Variety 3 : ohv. and rev., crescent, on r. top : — 



Sub-variety a : ohv. and rev., v. arm raised, 1. arm 



pointing down 2 



Sab-variety h : ohv., r. arm pointing down, 1. 

 arm raised ; rev., r. arm level, 1. arm a-kimbo. 2 



Class V (PI. IT, fig. 12), with crescent on head of reverse 

 figure. Ohv., V. arm level, 1. arm raised; rev., v. arm 

 level, 1. arm a-kimbo 1 



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Besides there are a number of specimens which are 

 too badly preserved to admit of being classed in any 

 of the above divisions ; altogether 46. 



Regarding the age of these coins, some conclusion may be drawn, 

 from the fact of their association with coins which belonged to thd 

 Indo-Scythian coinage. They are clearly imitations of the latter 

 coinage ; and it may be assumed that they would not have been made, 

 unless the Indo-Scythian coins had still been current in Northern India. 

 There would have been no object in copying an obsolete coinage. The 

 period of the Indo-Scytliian coinage is fairly well-known. Kanishka 

 reigned in the last quarter of the first century A.D. His copper coin- 

 age, as well as imitations of it, passed current for about two centuries 

 afterwards. They are found numerously in the Panjab, and occasionally 

 much further east. The present, I believe, is the first occasion of any 



