248 Numismatic Gleanings. 



[NO. 6, NEW SERIES, 



Fig. 102, a copper coin, locality uncertain. 



Obverse ; a female figure (Padmavati ?) seated and holding a 

 lotus in each hand (see figs. 68 and 73.) Reverse ; a non- 

 descript symbol resembling spiked poles between two ladders ; 

 [*See reverses of figs. 76, 77.] 



Fig. 103, a thin copper coin from the sea shore near Madras. 



Obverse ; a dog : reverse ; four dot3 within a circle. This is a 

 unique specimen, and the only example that has been met with of 

 such an animal serving for a monetary device, but Prinsep has 

 figured several pieces from the Stacy collection in his plate of 

 earliest Hindu coins* in which a dog is the principal figure. The 

 weight of this is grains 43-9. 



Figs. 104, 105, 106 and 107, are leaden coins from Dipaldinni 

 similar to figs. 100 and 101, but in which the chatiya emblem 

 assumes the form of a solid mound or dehgope. Fig. 105 is a re- 

 markable, unique specimen of large size weighing grains 224-15, 

 having on the obverse the dehgope surmounted by a crescent, the 

 water symbol beneath, and the padma and santth shell on either 

 side with a legend extending round the edge but the letters much 

 flattened and the outlines pressed into each other. Reverse ; the 

 four-limbed chakram. 



Fig. 108, is a very thick copper piece with a plain reverse, the 

 o\ ; verse exhibiting the base of a* chatiya of two rows, the third and 

 uppermost being omitted and with a dot in each cf the arches. It 

 fills the whole of the upper part of the field which is deeply exca- 

 vated, the lower half containing a circle and crescent. This has 

 more the character of a weight than of a piece of money. It is ex- 

 actly equal to grains 105"35. 



The remaining figures 109, 110, 111 and 112 represent copper 

 seals picked up on the sea shore with the coins figs. 75 to 89 and 

 therefore attributable to the old Buddhist inhabitants of Maha- 

 Malleipuram and its dependencies. The use of material of which they 

 are composed and which accounts for their acquisition and appear- 

 ance here, is illustrated by an injunction occurring in M. Csoma 



* Jour. As. So. Ben. Vol. IV. p. 628 and PI. xxxv. figs. 34-36. 



