DESCRIPTION OF SELECT COINS. 585 



Plate III. Figures 48, 49 and 50. 



Two Gold Coins and One Copper. 



Obverse. — A sitting figure, in the first and last of rude 

 execution, but more carefully executed on the second. The 

 character is that of Durga, but the figure is probably intend- 

 ed for Lakshmi as the princes of the dynasty to which it 

 may be referred appear to have been Vaishnavas, from the 

 names of several of them. 



Reverse.— An inscription in Devanagari letters on the 

 first and third, particularly on the latter, is clearly, al- 

 though not entire, intended for ^Tt^^" ^rTfa"^"^ - ^ ^ Srimad 

 Govind Chandra Deva, and appropriates these Coins to the 

 dynasty of Rahtore princes, who reigned from the begin- 

 ning of the 11th to the end of the 12th century at Kanoj. 

 Govinda Chandra was the sixth (Asiatic Researches, Vol. 

 XV. 461). In the inscription on the second piece, there is 

 some indistinctness, but it is perhaps designed for 3ft*lf% *p£T 

 ^cf Vijaya Deva, the successor of Govind Chandra. 



One of the Gold Coins belongs to Mr. Prinsep, being one of two dug 

 up in the district of Azimgcrh : the other Gold and the Copper Coin were 

 procured at Allahabad, by Mr. R. Tytler, and presented by him to the 

 Society. The Gold Coins are by no means uncommon ; ten of them were 

 lately sent to the Calcutta Mint as part of a remittance for re-coinage. 



Plate III. Figure 51. 

 A Gold Coin. 



Obverse. — A female figure, with sundry indistinct 



emblems. 



g 5 



