240 



Numismatic Gleanings. 



[no.*6, new series, 



coins. They are of all weights and sizes. This one weighs 14*4. 

 We have received them frequently from the districts of Guntoor 

 and Masulipatam along the valley of the Kistna. 



Fig. 58, is copied from a MS. drawing of Col. Mackenzie re- 

 presenting a silver coin with the note " from Sehore, November 

 1819." 



Obverse ; a lion passant. Reverse ; a Nagari legend which may 

 be read Sri tarpi dcva. 

 Fig. 59 ; see Fig. 54. 



Fig. 60, a leaden coin in the Government Central Museum 

 where there are two specimens, numbered 40 and 41. 



Obverse ; a lion passant. Reverse ; the short, straight, Indian 

 sword ; on the other, the reverse is different, but is very indistinct 

 and resembles a large S shaped scroll. 



Fig. 61, belongs to a type of which several specimens have 

 been received from the Salem district, and of which a more ex- 

 tended notice will be given hereafter. This particular one has 

 been 'selected for this plate, because the figures both on the ob- 

 verse and reverse are connected with the series now under review. 



Obverse; a lion sitting on his hind quarters (sejant, gardant) 

 4 between two pillars on his right and a chahram elevated on a pillar 

 on his left. 



Reverse ; a bow and arrow as in fig. 13 of the punch coins. 

 Fig. 62, a copper coin from an uncertain locality. 



Obverse ; a lion passant regardant. Reverse ; a pagoda resem- 

 bling a Chinese temple or it may be intended for a rafha or idol 

 car. 



In the preceding series we have seen the elephant appearing con- 



„ jointly with the lion on the Buddhist coins of 



Plate X. 



Elephant Type. Bactria and of southern India, and also as the 

 .Bull Type. 



most frequent symbol occurring on the punch 

 coins in Pis. vn. and vni. In the following examples, the same 

 animal is represented as the typical figure of the series with various 

 Buddhist symbols on the reverse. 



