DESCRIPTION OF SELECT COINS. 571 



Plate I. Figure 13. 

 A Gold Coin. 



Obverse. — A male figure with a halo round his head, 

 necklace and jewel on his breast, an open tunic on his body 

 apparently, but naked below the waist : his left hand holds a 

 bow : his left appears to be pulling up a trophy or pillar, sur- 

 mounted by a bird : there are characters on the right, clearly 

 Nagari : the first is broken, but the rest form ^^C\/cU 



Reverse. — A female figure as in the preceding : both 

 arms are extended, and the implement in the right hand looks 

 like a whip. The monogram is the same : the characters 

 differ, and scarcely look like letters. 



This Coin is evidently connected with the preceding by the reverse, 

 whilst the obverse is essentially the same as in Figures 5 and 6. It also 

 resembles the two first of Captain Tod's fourth series : the marks or cha- 

 racters on the reverse are precisely the same as in the second of them, and 

 which Colonel Tod considers to be the same with those on the column at 

 Delhi ; but on comparing them with the plates in the seventh volume of 

 the Researches, the similarity does not occur to me. It appears that these 

 Coins are not uncommon. Colonel Tod has them from Agra, Mathura, 

 Uj ay in, and A Ijmer. "Dr. Wilkins," he adds, " has some found even in 

 Bengal; he thinks he can make out the word Chandra upon them." The 

 final of the word on the reverse, in our specimen, is not impossibly ttk*., 

 and we should thus have a Coin of Chandragupta ; but the preceding letters 

 cannot satisfactorily be identified with ^^\ the word may be •TT^TH^ • 



There is a difference in the position and character of the emblem in 

 this and in the last Coin, although essentially it is the same. It is more 



