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found in the low-level cutting near the sluice in the lowest 

 part of the bottom (or pottery) stratum, fully 18 feet under- 

 ground. Another coin, No. 2, was afterwards picked up in 

 the high-level cutting from the same stratum, but not from 

 the bottom of it. 



The description of the coins is as follows : — 



1. An oblong copper coin, 1*14 inch long, -46 inch broad, 

 and weighing 52| grains. 



Obverse. A full-length standing figure of a man, looking 

 to the front. The left hand rests on something represented 

 by three upright lines. Around and over the head runs a 

 wavy line, which may perhaps indicate the royal umbrella. 

 The right forearm seems to be turned upwards. The legs 

 are slightly apart, and the feet turned outwards. There 

 appears to be a tunic, which extends to the upper part of 

 the thighs. The whole figure is well-proportioned and 

 somewhat graceful. 



Reverse. More indistinct than the obverse, but it con- 

 tains a symbol in relief which appears to resemble that on 

 the other coins found. This consists of two lines in the 

 upper part of the coin, one vertical and the other horizontal, 

 crossing each other at a right-angle. The ends of these 

 lines are bent at a right-angle to the right (beginning from 

 the top, and following the hands of a watch). This first 

 part of the symbol has been found engraved on two pieces 

 of pottery also.* The rest of the symbol is as follows : — 

 The vertical line is produced downwards for a distance equal 

 to about half its length, when it meets another line running 

 horizontally across the lower part of the coin. From this 

 latter line, on each side of the central produced line, spring 

 two upright lines which rise to about one-third of the height 

 of the central line. The whole figure is thus symmetrical. 

 Below the horizontal base line there usually runs one wavy 

 line. The symbol cannot be properly distinguished on this 

 special coin, but part of it can be made out, and as it is 

 found on all the other ancient coins, it was probably similar 

 on this one. 



* This is the " Svastika" ormonogram of the word Svdsti. (Report of 

 Archaeological Survey of India, Vol. V., p. 177, illustrated in plate 

 XLII.) 



