1836.] Early Hindu Series of Coins. 651 



of the family have been met with. It was not until Mr. Tregear's 

 highly curious specimen, fig. 11, had furnished us with the style of 

 Chandra's copper coins that we were led to re-examine our several 

 collections, in which were found, and became legible, a few rare spe- 

 cimens of the same character. 



Fig. 11 has the portrait of the Raja on one side, with a smaller, 

 perhaps female, figure on his left hand. On the reverse a front face 

 of him is presented, leaning, as it were, on a window sill : below which 

 in very well defined characters, .... ^HT5T "'sft'^riJJrH' (Sri ma) hdrdja 

 Sri Chandra-gupta. 



Fig. 12 is a demi-coin of similar stamp, one of two belonging 

 also to Mr. Tregear : button the reverse of this, as in all that follow, 

 the device, is a bird, the same that figures on the military standard of 

 the gold coins, and which Mr. Wilson says " looks more like a goose 

 than a Roman eagle." The inscription is very well preserved, ^^^JITf 

 Sri Chandra-gupta. 



Fig. 13 is from Col. Stacy's cabinet: the obverse, well executed, 

 represents the bust of the Raja holding a flower ; beneath, ^Plf^^JT. . 

 Sri Vikrama ; the next letter may be ^ or w ; but on the reverse are 

 distinguishable the initial letters ^rt^ • Sri Cha. . . . proving that the 

 coin belongs to Chandra-gupta. 



Fig. 14 is from Col. Swiney's cabinet, in all respects a duplicate 

 of the last, but the reverse legend is even more distinctly .... ^3fJT?T 

 the lower part of the ndra only is effaced. 



Fig. 15 had escaped notice in my own cabinet : — the head is more 

 highly finished than in the other specimens, but the legend could not 

 have been understood without their aid : — it is .... "•SjaTTT. . . . ndra- 

 gupta. 



Before quitting this very interesting group of coins, I must not 

 omit to notice the only silver specimen which has yet come under my 

 observation : it belongs to Dr. Swiney, and is ... . a forgery ! — not a 

 modern one, but an actual false coin of the period when it was 

 struck. It is of copper thickly plated, but the silver plate is worn 

 through in several places, exposing the interior nucleus. I have 

 depicted it in Plate XXXIX. Fig. 21. 



Obverse, the Raja in the original sacrificing attitude ; under his 

 left arm the letters ^5)5f^[ Ajaya or TTSTO Raja y.. . 



Reverse. Goddess (Durga ?) seated in the native fashion with cor- 

 nucopia (or flower) and glory — a small elephant with trunk uplifted 

 for protection, on her right shoulder. The marginal inscription 



sftsr^PJrr Sri Prakanau .... the last letter may be double n, — 



but in neither manner does it present an intelligible word. 

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