296 Specimens of Indo-Sassanian Coins. [April, 



for instance, in figs. 11, 13, and 14, where the eye, nose, lips and 

 chin resolve themselves into elementary dots, very like those on the 

 Saurashtra coins. 



Fig. 9 has the letters 'jffas - or ^ft^J^F Sri Ladha . . 



Fig. 10, a small copper coin belonging to Dr. Swiney, is in a far 

 superior style, with the exception perhaps of an unaccountable sub- 

 stitution of the chakra for the head of the attendant at the altar ! 

 Can thus it denote the Sun himself ? There are letters in front of the 

 face ^^jS .... Sri Dat ... or some such name. 



In figs. 11 and 12 (which latter gives the lower portion of the same 

 die), there are more letters than usual : — enclosed in a circle on the 

 cap or crown the letter XJ s : then in front of the nose the usual -<§t, and 

 below it the V) or h of the same alphabet. 



In the lower series (13, 14,) the shoulders and hand are generally 

 replaced by letters. On some the context seems to make ^fmt . . S?-i 

 Vigra (ha) ; on others ^t % .. Sri Yo, and ^fffq . . Sri Pi . . . None are 

 complete enough to give us a cognate name. 



Having conducted this line of Indo-Sassanians down to its amalga- 

 mation in the Vardha series of my former plate, we may recede, once 

 more, back to the period when the Indian artists could execute a less 

 imperfect copy of the Grecian or Sassanian portrait- die. 



Figs. 15, 16 of this plate, and 6 of the ensuing one, are types of a 

 distinct group of copper coins, plentiful in the Swiney and Stacy 

 cabinets. The appendage to the shoulder decides the Sassanian 

 origin, and the wheel on the reverse seems to be borrowed from 

 the emblem above the fire-altar. I incline to think it the solar effigy, 

 rather than the symbol of a Chakravartti, or ruler of universal domi- 

 nion. It is probable that this common emblem is still preserved 

 in the sun of the Ujjain and Indore coins of the present day. There is 

 the appearance of a letter in front of the face, but ill defined. On the 

 opposite side, however, the two large letters under the wheel are most 

 distinctly WTC, tora, the meaning of which remains a mystery. They 

 are not in the same alphabet as that of the preceding coins, but of the 

 more ancient lath character which accords so far with the comparative 

 superiority of the engraving. 



Plate XV. 



Figs. 1, 2, 3, from Colonel Stacy's drawings, and 4, 5, from Dr. 

 Swiney's coins, are closely allied to the series just described : the 

 Indian bull only being brought on the reverse, generally with the re- 

 tention of the chakra under his feet or on his haunches. The name 

 in front of the raja's face in figs. 3 and 4 contains several recogniza- 



