76 J- GIbbs — Note on BamtinJcis. [April, 



6. From the Hon'ble J. Gibbs, — Plaster Cast from the estampage 

 of a 100-goldmohur piece of Aurangzebe, exhibited at the January meeting. 



The following gentleman, duly proposed and seconded at the last meet- 

 ing, was ballotted for and elected an Ordinary Member : 



Hon'ble C. H. T. Crosthwaite, C. S. 



The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next meet- 

 ing : 



S. A. Hill, Esq., B. Sc, Meteorological Reporter to Government, North- 

 West Provinces, proposed by J. Eliot, Esq , seconded by A. Pedler, Esq. 



Babu Rajkrishna Mukerjea, B. A., B. L., Calcutta, proposed by Babu 

 Adharlal Sen, seconded by Dr. H. W. M'Cann. 



The Seceetaet reported that the following coins had been acquired 

 under the Treasure Trove Act : — 



31 Silver coins from the Deputy Commissioner of the Santhal Per- 

 gunnahs found in the villages of Bir Gopalpur and Nasipur, Pargana Am- 

 bar, Subdivision Pakour, Santhal Parganas. 



The Hon'ble J. Gibbs exhibited some gold Ramtinkis, and read the 

 following note : 



The first Ramtinki I ever saw was in 1852. It belonged to the late 

 W. E. Frere, Esq., C. M. G. of the Bombay Civil Service : he procured it 

 when he was at Dharwar in the S. M. country. It is now with the rest of 

 bis collection in the Museum of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society. It is concave, of pale gold, weighing 360 grains; it is much rubbed 

 but has in the inner side 3 rows of figures. 



I show a sketch of it in water colour, made for me by Mr. Rehatsio 

 in Bombay. I tried to obtain such a coin for many years, but did not succeed 

 until the period of the famine in 1877, when my brother-in-law, the Judge 

 at Belgaum, hearing that a Borah was trying to sell one, sent and bought 

 it for me. In the next two or three years I obtained as many as 8, and 3 

 of them I have every reason to believe were more than 900 years old : these 

 are of gold, highly and unequally alloyed with silver, and the largest resem- 

 bles in make, and as far as the figures c£Cn be made out, in style, that of Mr. 

 Frere which I have above described. I divide the Ramtinkis I have pro- 

 cured into three different sets : 



a. Those of very pale gold heavily alloyed with silver. 

 p. Those of pure gold or nearly so with very fine work. 

 y. Those of pretty good gold and coarser work. 



From the difference in weight and size and from what I have been 

 able to Icurn, there are three sizes; 



