8$ 



Numismatic Gleanings. [No. 7, new series. 



gree to this cause. For it is notorious that goldsmiths use one 

 set of seeds for buying and another for selling,* and it is quite pos- 

 sible that mint-masters may have availed themselves of a similar 

 license in receiving bullion and issuing coin. 



An examination of the old system of weights prevalent in 

 Southern India will probably throw more light on this part of the 

 subject, to which it is proposed to return in a subsequent No. 



Figs. 1, 2, are of gold and belong to the same class 

 Description & ' fo & 



of Plate I. as those described in the former No. figs. 28 to 35, 



the symbols consisting of a normal figure in the centre, around 

 which four or five others have been afterwards struck by means of 

 smaller dies or punches. 



Fig. 1. Cup-shaped, with the reverse plain; obverse on the con- 

 cave side, with a rude figure of a boar for the normal or central 

 figure, around which are four circular stamps of the chahra or 

 wheel. Between these, immediately in front, and in rear of the 

 boar, two stamps of what has been supposed to be intended for the 

 character sri and above and below the boar two square 



stamps containing letters of which the letter 2$ j only is well de- 

 fined. The piece weighs grains 55-75. 



Fig. 2. is also cup-shaped. The obverse has in the centre a 

 boar much better defined than in the preceding specimen and the 

 design altogether exhibits a superior degree of execution. Above 

 the principal figure are separate stamps of a padma or lotus and a 

 'sankh shell, below is a bow and before and behind the W-like 

 symbol. Reverse, a few lines at right angles to each other, forming 

 an irrgular square. Weight grains 58 - 65. 



Both of these were procured from Kurnool. They exhibit a di- 

 rect transition from the earlier Buddhist coins to those of the first 

 Chalukya princes, and may be considered as examples of the ear- 

 liest money struck by that dynasty. These two are the only spe- 

 cimens I have ever met wi'h, but in 1846, Capt. Latter, in a paper 

 on the symbolical coins of Arracan, in the Calcutta Journal, des- 

 cribed a third, which he states to have been found on the sea-shore 



* Jeryis' weights of Konkan, p, 39. 



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