apkil sept. 1858.] Numismatic Gleanings. 89 



in the island of Ramree. " The central portion" he observes, 

 « represents an animal like a pig, with the representation of the sa- 

 cred Bo-tree above and a monographic character $ beneath, and 

 around, certain characters, &c."* The coin so characterized is 

 doubtless an early Chalukya gad'hyanam and its presence in Ram- 

 ree is easily accounted for by the commercial intercourse which has 

 at all times subsisted between the coast of Kalinga, long under 

 Chalukya domination, and the opposite country of Arracan. Judg- 

 ing from Capt. Latter' s figure which is rudely depicted, the central 

 figure is clearly that of a boar, surmounted by a cKhatra or um- 

 brella and with a pillar (stamVha) or candelabrum before it. The 

 monagram is perhaps the 'sanKh or some other of the symbols re- 

 presented on the seals in plate II, and round the central figure are 

 seven separate stamps, four and probably all of which, represent 

 letters in the Hala-Kannada or old Telugu character. 



Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are all gold die-coins, and may therefore be as- 

 sumed to belong to a later series. The form also is different and 

 more nearly approaches to the common dumpy form of the pagoda 

 in modern times, but they exceed the heaviest of the recent pagodas 

 in weight. They may be assigned to the period between the 7th 

 and 10th centuries, their relative antiquity being in the inverse 

 order to their numbers in the plate. 



Fig. 3, is a copy of fig. 13 in plate 104 of Moore's Hindu Pan- 

 theon containing representations of coins found in the cabinet of 

 the late Tippoo Sultan ; the obverse represents the boar with the 

 sun, moon, a cross probably intended for a sword and some other 

 symbols not recognizable ; the reverse has the scroll pattern, charac- 

 teristic of many of this class of early coins, from which the term 

 p'huli hun or flower-pagoda has probably been derived. 



Fig. 4. Obverse, a boar caparisoned with jewelled trappings and 

 having three scrolls of foliage above and below ; reverse, a radiat- 

 ed chakra or wheel; weight grains 58*65. In the collection of the 

 Government Central Museum, for which it was purchased at the 

 Exhibition of 1855, from the objects transmitted by the Bellary 

 Local Committee. 



* Jour. As. Soc, Beng. Vol, xv. p. 240. PL iii. fig. 6. 



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