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no particulars whatever are given. They have every appearance of 

 being modern manufacture. 



The coins are of a mixture of gold and silver, and are very old. 

 They are precisely of the same description, in every particular, as the 

 62 coins, found in 1888 in the Bijnor District, N.-W. Provinces, and 

 described and published by me in the Proceedings of this Society, for 

 November, 1888, p. 205. They are also referred to in Mr. V. A. Smith's 

 paper in the Journal of the Society for 1895, pp. 181, 184, on the 

 " Coinage of the Gupta Period." The coins belong to the Class of the 

 so-called " Later Indo-Scythian Coins," and to the G-roup of " Later 

 Great Kusans, Class B," or the Group of " Early Little Kusans." t 

 repeat their description, as it was given not quite correctly in the 

 Proceedings for 1888. 



Ohv. Crude figure of king standing to left. Under his left arm 



kidara ; outside spear kshana ; to left of king's right leg 



kapana, between this word and the leg one large dot or 



a cluster of dots (3 to 5). 

 Eev. Goddess, seated on throne with cornucopial in left hand ; 



over her head a crewcent, generally let into the dotted 



marginal circle. Monogram, in top of right field, tr~i or 

 :ir(. In the middle of right field, near the margin, a large 



letter, which seems to be la in some, sa and sala in other 

 specimens. 



The following is a list of the ornaments : — 



1, 



Earrings; 



. . gold. 



2 



specimens 



2, 



Ear-studs 



- ,, 



3 



55 



3, 



Lockets 



.. . ,, 



2 



55 



4, 



Pieces 



If 



12 



55 



5, 



Earrings, 



... silver, 



25 



5» 



6, 



Bangles 



55 



2 



55 



7, 



Do. (another kind) 



55 



4 



55 



8, 



Do. (smaller) 



55 



6 



55 



9, 



Armbands 



55 



16 



55 



10, 



Collar 



55 



1 



55 



IJ, 



Rings 



55 



2 



15 



12, 



Bracelets 



55 



9 



55 



13, 



Sets of balls ...* 



55 



2 



55 



Total 



8G 



