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 dots 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 sank'h 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. 1 08, is a very thick copper piece with a plain reverse, the 

 obverse exhibiting the base of a chatiya of two rows, the third and 

 uppermost being omitted and with a dot in each of 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. 



