DESCRIPTION OF SELECT COINS. 603 



Le 2 Juin. A trois pieds plus bas une medaille. 

 Le 3 ditto. A trois pieds plus bas six medailles. 



Le 8 Juin, 1830. L' ouverture d' en bas et celle d' en haut se sont reunies, & 1' on a trouve 

 Ja terre : les travaux ont ete poursuivis jusqu' a vingt pieds en dessous du niveau de la coupole 

 sans rien trouver. Les pluies ont necessite la discontinuation de 1 entreprise. M. Ventura a 

 1' intention de les continuer pour que les fouilles soient faites sur tous les points. 



The letter having been communicated to the Society by Colonel 

 Young, General Ventura was addressed for further information, in reply 

 to which he sent to the Society a revised statement of his labours, in 

 substance the same as the above, and impressions in wax of three of the 

 Coins. From these again, a number of impressions were taken in biscuit by 

 Mr. Prinsep, and the Figures 1 of Plate I, and 35 and 43 of Plate II, 

 delineated and engraved from the same. Subsequently similar Coins 

 have been procured in the vicinity of Manikyala by Lieutenant Burnes : 

 two of which he sent to Calcutta. One is not decypherable satisfactorily, 

 but the other has been delineated and engraved as No. 25 of Plate II.* 



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Of the origin of these Coins, a conjecture has been already expressed. 

 Coin 25, is probably a Bactrian Coin, two of the others are Indo- 

 Scythic,or Coins of the princes who ruled in the Punjab after the downfall 

 of the Bactrian kingdom, and one is the rude Coin of a Hindu sovereign. 



Some of the impressions taken of the Coins in Calcutta, were sent to 

 Paris, and a late number of the Journal Asiatique contains two short 

 notices of them by M. Reinaud and M. J. Saint Martin. The 

 latter gentleman gives a particular description of our figure 1 Plate I, and 



* A subsequent communication from Lieutenant Burnes, to whom a copy of the Plates I. 

 and II. had been transmitted, states that all the Coins found at Manihyala were of a type analogous 

 to Nos. 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30. He mentions also having found a Coin very like No. 26 at Balkli, 



