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bent at right angles in the same direction, surrounded by four 

 punched impressions of lions, which a herald would describe as 

 passant regardant. Reverse the scroll ornament, [vide fig. 30,] 

 and two indented marks. 



Figs. 35, and 36a, only differ in the normal symbol which in the 

 former is a <padma or lotus, but in the latter the form intended to 

 be represented is not distinctly defined. 



These were all obtained in the Southern Mahratta Country and 

 weigh respectively grains 58*825 — 58*525 — 58*4-5. 



Figs. 36b. and 37, are representations of two gold coins, which 

 with eight others were found at the village of Hevali in the south- 

 ern Konkan in 1844, and were presented by the Government of 

 Bombay to the Asiatic Society of that Presidency from whose 

 Journal the figures are copied.* They belong clearly to the same 

 type as figs. 34— 36a. 



Fig. 365, obverse ; normal figure, a lion passant, with four si- 

 milar lions subsequently impressed on the four sides between two 

 of which is the symbol described above as resembling the letter 2f> 

 or djQ, and between the two others, one stamp containing letters 

 and another opposite to it of some unintelligible device. This 

 coin is interesting as exhibiting eight separate stamps besides the 

 central one, which from the drawing appears to have been also 

 impressed by means of a punch. 



Reverse ; not figured, but as two of the coins are stated to have 

 been quite plain in the reverse, this was probably one of them ; 

 weight stated to be 63 grains. 



Fig, 37, obverse ; a single figure of a lion passant, regardant, 

 with a legend in old Telugu or Canarese letters below. 



Reverse, a scroll or arabesque of foliage in the centre, surround- 

 ed by a circle of dots, and that again by an outer circle in which 

 an ornament resembling the Greek letter 0 or a circular buckle, 

 alternates with a trefoil. 



This type to which the majority of the Hevali specimens appear 

 to have belonged, has all the appearance of being a die-coin, but 



* Vol. II. p. 63, PI. xu. figs. 1, 2, 3. 



