506 On the Coins of the Gupta Dynasty. [No. 6. 



of the Eoyal Asiatic Society has the word "^T^TTT^rCr^r abbreviated 

 into CrWTO \ and No. 39 has the same word contracted to "CTWT- 



Since my last notice of these coins in the J. E. A. S. in April, 

 1848, I have had an opportunity of examining a set of very perfect 

 coins, thirteen in number, which were found at Ellichpore in 1851, 

 and presented to the late Sir H. M. Elliot. These do not however, 

 add any thing to our previous knowledge of the subject. Their 

 average weight was 29 grains, the highest being 32 grains. 



Skanda Gtjpta. 



Class c; J. A. S. B. VII. PL XII. 18, 19; J. E. A. S. XII. PL 

 II. 43, 44 ; A. A. XV. 20. 



Obverse, as in class b. Kumara Gupta, but the execution has 

 greatly deteriorated ; on some specimens traces of the word NANO 

 are still to be seen. 



Beverse. — The device in this class of money, appears to offer a 

 more direct imitation of that of the Sri Gupta pieces, than did the 

 intermediate Kumara reverse types, these latter are seen to reject 

 the foot scrolls and to vary the details of the centre figure to a con- 

 siderable extent. 



Legend— "W*: VTTTWcT ^fj ^f^ TTR 3T*TTf^F 



Barama Bhagavata Sri Skanda Gupta Kramdditya. 



Peinsep, in his collated reading of the legends on these coins 

 (J. A. S. B., vii. 356), adopted the letter T (for *T?T) as occurring 

 after the word WRcT [or WT^cT as he made it], which he found to 

 be followed by the title of TX*$, which precedes the name of the 

 monarch. This rendering, he would seem to have drawn from fig. 

 29, PL II., Steuaet (J. E. A. S., 1837) ; but as the like letters do 

 not generally recur, I have marked this as the exception rather than 

 the rule. 



The weights of these coins vary from 23 to 29 grains. 



Class d; J. E. A. S. XII. PL II. 45, 46 ; A. A. XV. 19. 



Obverse. — Crudely outlined head, with traces of the title NANO 

 in front of the profile. 



