192 CGINS. FROM MALACCA, 
Of a smalier size of this coin, possibly the Dinheiros, there 
are about forty specimens, some in excellent condition. Size 
19mm = #in; weight 2 to 2.3 grammes. The obverse bears 
around the cross the inscription 
IOA: Ill: POR: ET: AL. 
The reverse has the sphere (pl. II, figs. 10 and 10*). 
There are some coins which on the obverse round a coat-of- 
arms merely bear the inscription. 
IOANNES. R. P. ET- AL. D. G., 
ji. e. Ioannes Rex Portugalize et Algarbiorum Dei Gratia, and on 
the reverse the sphere. Although not clearly assigned to the 
reign of John III, still there is no reasonable doubt that they too 
belong to his time, and not to that of John IV, 1640-1656, dur- 
ing the second year of whose reign Malacca was lost to the Por- 
tuguese, nor to the time of John V, 1706-1750. There are about 
twenty specimens of it, but most of them in a very indifferent 
condition. Size 24 mm.—12in; weight 6.3 to 6.4 grammes. 
(pl. II, figs. 8 and 8°). 
A smaller coin, of which there are two specimens, has on the 
obverse a cross, with the letters IS M A in the four angles of 
the cross, and on the reverse again the sphere. These letters 
probably stand for ‘Ioannes, Malacca, shewing that the coin 
was struck at Malacca during the reign of a King Ioannes, prob- 
ably again John III. The cross is very like the cross on certain 
coins figured by Da Cunha (part 1, pl. I, figs 8, 4 and 7) from the 
mints of Goa and Diu and belonging apparently to the eighteenth 
century. Size 17.5 mm. in; weight 3.8 to 3.9 grammes 
(pl. II, figs. 13 and 13°). 
Belonging probably to the reign of the next king, Sebastian, 
1557-1578, there are six specimens of a large coin which has on 
the reverse the two letters S. B. with three crossed arrows be- 
tween them, and on the reverse the coat-of-arms. The 8S. probably 
stands for ‘Sebastian’, and the letter B. may stand either for 
Jour, Straits Branch 
