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No. 18. The same indistinct. 



No. 14. Obverse the same worn. Rev. Inscription in lines, Tama- 

 pasa legible in Pali. 



No. 15. Nothing distinct. 



No. 16. Obv. Horse's tail and hind quarter. Rev. Figure standing 

 Laga'mapasa in Pali. 



Nos. 17, 18, 19. Obv. Bull. Rev. Standing figure with inscription 

 Rajnapadasa : centre one in Bactrian. 



No. 20. Obv. Standing figure, Pali inscription, Paghugapasa. 

 Rev. Figure : no inscription. 



No. 21. Nothing made out. 



No. 22. Obv. Figure in speaking attitude. Rajna Raghuna'm. 



Nos. 23, 24, and 25, not decyphered. 



N. B. These latter are classified as of the Satrap group, first be- 

 cause of the title Raja or Maharaja not being found in any of them ; 

 secondly, because of the names having so evidently an ancient Persian 

 aspect, and lastly, because of the horse emblem, which probably had its 

 origin in the circumstances which attended the accession of Gushtasp, 

 Darius Hystaspes. 



VI. — Ancient Hindu Coins from Jyonpur and Oojein, 



Besides the coins of Bactria and Kabul, which formed the subject of 

 the preceding article, and which carry back the numismatic records 

 of that country to times anterior to the Grecian invasion, when it 

 formed a province of the dominions of the great king of Persia, and 

 even before that, when governed by its own, or by an Indian maharaja, 

 there have been found simultaneously in distant parts of India, other 

 similar records of the same periods. Mr. Vincent Tregear has been 

 so fortunate as to obtain, in the vicinity of Jyonpur, several coins of the 

 early period of the Devas and Dattas, with legends, plainly legible, in 

 the oldest form of Pali character, and likewise more than one Purusha 

 Datta, which it requires no great stretch of credulity to identify as 

 the coin of the great Porus himself, the antagonist of Alexander. 

 These coins were transmitted to our Editor for more complete il- 

 lustration, with a brief notice by Mr. Tregear, whose readings have 

 much aided us in framing the annexed descriptive list. From the 

 number thus transmitted a selection was made for the annexed plate, 

 which was not ready when our Editor left Calcutta. We think it due 

 however to our readers to insert the plate in the last number of this 

 series of his journal, for the same reason, that we in the preceding 



