DESCRIPTION OF SELECT COINS. 565 



Reverse. — A female figure with long hair, a halo round 

 her head, dressed in a stole, and holding in her right hand, 

 the only one visible, what may be intended for a lotus : the 

 characters M^N^ are legible, and the symbol appears a 



sort of key, or ring and staff, surmounted by four points, *¥* . 



it wants the cross bar. 



This Coin is allied to the preceding by the identity of the characters, 

 and by the symbol, which, however, wants the cross bar that occurs in 

 the preceding. The head dress and physiognomy of the figure on the 

 obverse, are also different, and it would seem to be therefore the Coin of a 

 different prince, although of the same dynasty. The principal figure recurs 

 in several after Coins. 



This Coin is one of two turned up in a field by a husbandman plough- 

 ing near Comilla, in Tipera ; the original was in the possession of Dr. 

 Carey : the engraving is from a drawing in the Society's possession. 



Plate I. Figures 3 and 4.*' 



Gold Coins in the Cabinet of the Asiatic Society. 



Obverse. — A figure, in its general character, similar to 

 the former — a man erect, with a tunic of mail or a cuirass 

 with skirts : he has a tiara or crown on his head, with fillets 

 and a halo : the right arm is extended, and grasps what looks 

 like a bucket with a handle, or may be a cuirass : above the 

 arm is a trident : the left arm holds a three-pointed spear, 

 or a spear with a guard : he has a sword at his side. The 



* They were inadvertently and unnecessarily engraved in duplicate, being precisely alike. 



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