580 DESCRIPTION OF SELECT COINS. 



points, *%* . In one specimen, figure 31, there are characters 

 which look like the Persian numerals 261190 p'^ilQO . 



Reverse. — A man riding on an elephant: there are 

 traces of characters or of an ornamented margin, it is not 

 possible to determine which, on some of the pieces. 



Colonel Tod has a Coin, No. 12, of his plate, which corresponds with 

 the Coins here described, the differences in the detail of the figure being, 

 perhaps, those of the impression of the Coin, or the accuracy of the draw- 

 ing. The figure on the obverse is supposed by Schlegel to be Siva 

 with four arms ; but this may be doubted, the marks on the left shoulder 

 being nothing more than part of the trophy with which we have met 

 before, — a staff surmounted by a bird. Both Colonel Tod and Schlegel 

 refer this Coin to the Indo-Scythic kingdom, and it evidently belongs to 

 the same series as several of the preceding, attributed to the same origin. 

 As to the characters on No. 31, supposing them to be Persian cyphers, 

 they might have been cut subsequently, as it is exceedingly common for 

 Native bankers and others to make such marks as they think proper, 

 even on the current Coins. 



Of the Coins now engraved, two belong to the Society, and two to Mr. 

 James Prinsep, who has several others. He states that they are very 

 common in Upper India, particularly about Benares, 'Mirzapore, and Alla- 

 habad. The Natives call them Tena mu'i Pysa, the meaning of which I 

 have not been able to ascertain. 



Plate II. Figure 35. 

 A Copper Coin. 



Obverse. — A male figure leaning on a staff or spear 

 with one hand, and extending the other as to grasp a trophy: 

 on the margin are some characters. 



