DESCRIPTION OF SELECT COINS. 563 



Although there is no exact duplicate of this Coin, yet it is identifiable 

 with several of those which remain to be described in various parti- 

 culars. Thus similar characters are observable in Nos. 2 and 3, 4, 

 of the first Plate, and in Nos. 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, and 34, of the second 



Plate, whilst the emblem on the reverse or a mark of this form *||F 



occasionally a little varied, the handle being a lozenge instead of a circle, 

 or three points being substituted for four may be observed on a still 

 greater number or Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, of Plate I. and in Nos. 24, 

 25, 26, 31, 33, and 35, of Plate II, besides indistinctly in some others. Many 

 Coins again on which it does not appear, are identified by other charac- 

 teristics, leaving little doubt of their belonging to a common series, 

 although probably struck at various periods and under different Princes. 

 The whole of this series appears to me to comprehend the following : Plate 

 I. No. 1 to No. 16. Plate II. No. 23 to No. 40. Some others may 

 belong to the same, but are of very rude execution, as in Plate I. No. 22, 

 in Plate II. 41 to 47. 



The original of this Coin was lately discovered by General Ventura, 

 in an ancient building at Mlmikydla: an impression in wax was sent by him 

 to the Society, from which several plaster castes were carefully taken, and 

 thence drawings made by Mr. Prinsep. It would have been more satis- 

 factory, it is true, to have consulted the original, but there is no doubt of 

 the characteristics of the Coin being faithfully represented. 



An account of General Ventura's investigations is given as an Appen- 

 dix to this paper. They do not, as far as we are acquainted with them, 

 determine the age or origin of the Tope Mdnilajala, although they leave 

 it likely that it is a structure of the 3d or 4th century of the Christian 

 era, if not earlier. As the Coins dug up there, are of evidently different 

 periods, it can only be asserted of them, generally, that they preceded the 



