402 Note on three ancient coins. [No. 5. 



No. 2. (Fig. 1 1) appears likewise to be a Gupta coin, and is evidently 

 an unique specimen of its kind. On the obverse it has the raja seated on 

 a stool with a nimbus round his head, and attended by two females 

 standing by his side ; above his left hand is an indistinct monogram. 

 On the reverse is a standing female figure holding branches of lotus 

 in her hands ; before her is a peacock, and to the left the letters 

 ^t*rT^ (TH?) Sri Narendra (Gupta ?), in the Gupta character. It is 

 however doubtful if this be a coin of the monarch of that name, whose 

 coins have an equestrian obverse. 



No. 3. (Fig. 12.) This coin has not yet been noticed by any Indian 

 numismatist. On the obverse it has a human figure seated on a bull 

 couchant, with the letters 5HI (Jaya) at the bottom, and ^ffti in the 

 margin to the left, in the Gupta character. On the reverse the legend is 

 the same as in the Gupta coins, but rudely executed. The inscription 

 is not perfect, the letters ~%m{ (Sri mata) are all that are distinct : 

 Metal very impure silver. 



A coin somewhat analogous to this, but with the bull rampant, 

 was discovered by Mr. Tregear at Jaunpur whilst digging on the site 

 of an old fort called Jayachand' s Koth {Journal As. Soc. Vol. iii. 

 p. 411, plate xiii. fig. 12), and a brass seal with a bull couchant 

 done in very much the same style as the coin, with the name of 

 Jayachand in full was found at Shahpur Oonde, and presented to the 

 Asiatic Society in June, 1850, by Mr. Earle, from a careful compari- 

 son of which, bearing in mind that the bull is the peculiar cognizance 

 of the Rajputs, and that Raja Jaychandra of Captain Fell's Benares 

 copper plates (Asiatic Researches XV. p. 446,) was a scion of that royal 

 stock, I am led to assign this coin to that prince. According to the 

 plates Jayachand flourished in A. C. 1177, an era fully borne out by 

 the modern and peculiarly Indian appearance of the coin. 



