1888.] Dr. Hoernle — On netv Badrian and Ou]jta Coins. 129 



It may be useful to record here the normal form of the surd 

 cerebrals and dentals, regarding which some uncertainty still seems to 

 prevail. They are : + =: ^ = t ; "={ = ^ = th ; ^ =z rf = t ; =\~ = "^ = th. 

 Occasionally variations of these normal forms occur, in which the cross 

 line is not drawn straight or not continuous ] thus we may have "i- or 

 T or T for 4- = s t ; or "^ for ^ ar th, or "^ or ^ or ^ for ■=}- ^ th. 

 These are mere inaccuracies (sometimes owing to the nature of the 

 surface on which the letters are incised), which cannot mislead when the 

 normal form is known. 



No. 2. The second Bactrian silver coin is a hemidrachm of 

 Diomedes (see Plate IV, fig. 2). It is identical, or very nearly identical, 

 with one in the British Museum collection, but, as will be seen by a 

 reference to fig. 11, of Plate YIII, in Professor Gardner's catalogue 

 (p. 31), the Prakrit inscription on the reverse is not nearly as complete 

 as on the Society's newly acquired specimen. Sallet {ih., p. 114) 

 mentions another as an " unicum " in an " English private collection," 

 which, however, is perhaps the identical one of the British Museum. 

 The Society's specimen reads as follows : 



Obv. BA^IAEO^ i^OTHPO^ AIOMHAOY, with king's head, 



helmeted, to right. 

 Bev. (in Arian Pali characters) Malharajasa'] tradatasa 

 Diyomidasa, with Dioscuri standing, lance in hand, to 

 front ; on the left side the monogram, No. 20 a or b, on 

 PI. XI, c in Ind. Ant., vol. II. 

 The name seems to read distinctly Diyomidasa or Biyumidasa ; the 

 left leg of the letter y has a distinct curve attached to it, usually indi- 

 cative of the vowel u or o. 



No. 3. About two months ago I received from Mr. Henry S. Boys, 

 B. 0. S., in Lucknow, for decipherment, a gold Gupta coin, which 

 he had obtained at Badauli, about 25 miles from Ajudhya. It is of 

 a quite new type, and apparently unique. It is of somewhat coarse work- 

 manship, though not more so than many other Gupta coins of well- 

 known types, and is undoubtedly genuine, as it was bought of a common 

 man at a little above its intrinsic value. Weight 112,5 grains. See 

 Plate lY, fig. 3. 



Obv. King standing in the same posture as on Samudra Gupta's 

 coins of the " Javelin " type, (see Mr. Smith's Catalogue, J. A. S. B., 

 vol. LIII, Part I, p. 172). King standing to left, dressed in be-jewelled 

 close-fitting tail coat, trowsers, and tall pointed cap, left arm resting on 

 javelin, right hand casting incense on a small altar in left field ; 

 behind right arm the bird standard ; corona round the head. Under 

 the king's left arm, within the field, "^^ chandra ; along the left hand 



