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The result has been so far satisfactory, that it has produced duplicates of 

 some of Colonel Tod's Coins, and added others of evidently analogous 

 fabrication, although it must be confessed that it does not furnish any 

 positive information as to their origin or date : it would scarcely be 

 worth while therefore to publish the particulars, except as a contribution 

 to a branch of enquiry hitherto almost unattempted, and as promoting the 

 fuller investigation of the subject. 



The chief collections of Coins made in this country, of which we 

 have most of us heard, and which some of us may have inspected, are the 

 following : I. The collection of the late Colonel Willoughby, of Patna : 

 this was a very miscellaneous assemblage, of which the most valuable 

 part was a tolerably numerous series of Mohammedan Coins. It has, I 

 believe, been sent home. II. The collection of a Mr. Seymour, of which 

 I had no personal knowledge, but which from drawings in our possession, 

 seems to have contained some curious Coins. This collection has, I be- 

 lieve, been dispersed. III. A large collection of Copper Coins, chiefly 

 Mohammedan, but many Roman, made by Dr. R. Tytler, and presented 

 by him to the Honorable the Court of Directors ; and lastly, IV, the collection 

 of the late Colonel Mackenzie, which contained a few curious Hindu 

 pieces, and a vast number of the Copper Coins of the South of India, many 

 modern, but some ancient, including Roman Coins dug up chiefly at 

 Dipaldinna and Amaravati, near the Godaveri. The bulk of this collec- 

 tion is now also in the Museum of the India House, but the duplicates 

 of such as existed in any number, were presented by the liberality of the 

 Government of Bengal to the Cabinet of our Society. 



Besides the specimens derived from this source, the Society is in 

 possession of others presented at different times by various benefactors, 

 and of duplicate drawings of Coins from the collections above men- 

 tioned, or of specimens in the hands of private individuals. Some of the 



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