570 DESCRIPTION OF SELECT COINS. 



Plate I. Figure 12. 

 A Gold Coin. 



Obverse. — A male and female figure on either side of 

 what appears to be a column, surmounted by a bird : both 

 figures are Hindu: the man holds a bow, the woman a flower: 

 there are two or three characters on the upper margin, but 

 imperfect. 



Reverse. — A female figure sitting on a lotus, which 

 rests upon what looks like a tortoise : her right hand is 

 extended, and holds what is perhaps meant for the lotus with 

 its long fibrous stalk : above the arm occurs a monogram of 

 a similar description with that in preceding pieces : instead 



of a circle, however, there is a lozenge *s? , and the points 



are only three : characters are legible, of which some are 

 clearly Nagari, but the combination is illegible : they are 



! 



This Coin is decidedly Hindu, and the figures on the obverse are, in 

 all likelihood, intended for Rama and Sita : the bird on the pillar or the 

 staff will, in that case, be Garura : the figure on the reverse appears to be 

 that of Lakshmi seated on a lotus resting upon a tortoise. The mono- 

 gram connects it with the first number of the series, from which it may 

 differ in being the currency of Native Hindu princes. The staff and bird 

 on the obverse, ally it to Figures 5 and 6. 



The drawing is made from the original Coin, which was obtained by 

 W. Bacon, Esq. at Kanoj, and presented to the Benares Literary Society : 

 the execution is very neat. 



