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found about 800 coins of Goyinda Chandra Deva of Kanauj near Nau- 

 para in the Bahraich District, Oudh. 



The coins are in the hands of Mr. A. Izat, Agent of the Railway 

 Company, who proposes to devote the proceeds of the sale of the 

 treasure to the endowment of the school at Gorakhpur for the children 

 of European railway employes. 



The metal of the coins is very impure gold, with a large admixture 

 of silver. Two, which I bought for six rupees each, are in very fine 

 condition. 



Mr. Izat will be glad to sell any number. The coins are of the 

 usual and well-known type. 



Find of Gold Gupta Coins in the JBasti District, N. W. P. — By 

 V. A. Smith Esq. 



During the month of August 1887, after a heavy fall of rain, a 

 shepherd found eleven gold Gupta coins at Mauza Sarai, about half 

 a mile south of the Basti Jail. Mauza Sarai, which is uninhabited, 

 and the adjoining village of Misraulier, on the bank of the Kuan a river, 

 occupy the site of an ancient town, which ignorant tradition ascribes 

 to the forest tribe named Tharu. 



One of the eleven coins found has been made away with, but I 

 succeeded with a little difficulty in securing the remaining ten, which 

 will be dealt with under the Treasure Trove Act. The usual allegations 

 were made that a large quantity of the coins had really been dis- 

 covered, but I have not been able to elicit any proof of the alleged fact. 



Nine of the coins belong to the Archer Type, class II, with lotus 

 seat reverse, of Chandra Gupta II, which is by far the commonest type 

 of the Gupta coinage. Two specimens of this type are in very fine 

 condition. The monograms are 8a, Sb, 10b, and 19b.* 



The tenth coin is a variety of the rare Swordsman and Umbrella 

 type of Chandra Gupta II, but is at first sight not readily recognizable, 

 owing to the fact that there is not room on the coin for the umbrella. 

 A close inspection shows that the attendant is holding its handle, but 

 no more of it is visible. The obverse legend is illegible, except the 

 single character W ' kra ', probably part of the word ' Vikramaditya \ 

 The reverse legend is distinctly ' Vikramadityah '. The coin now 

 described differs from that shown in my Plate III, figure 8, in that the 

 reverse goddess of the new coin has no pedestal. 



The form of the conjunct y in the coin under discussion is unusual, 



* The references are to my paper on the Gupta Gold Coinage in Journal 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1884, Part I. 



