COINAGE OP TRAVANCORE. 
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26. Patmandbhan Vardhan, Fatterii. 
Obv. Patmanabhan recliniug on the five headed 
serpent, with lotus and Brahma issuing from the 
navel, within a plain circle and dotted margin. 
Rev. Solomon's seal with central pellet within an 
ornamental rayed circle and dotted margin. 
Weight, in silver, 14-5. Size -67. Plat^ I., fig. 6. 
27. Arukonchakram, six angle chuckram and shell, 
Pattern. 
Obv. Shell and date 1018, dotted border. 
Rev. Solomon's seal with central pellet and small 
circle, within a plain imaer and radiate outer 
circle. 
Weight, in silver, 39. Size -68. Plate I., fig. 7 
Another and rather neater pattern has same ohv. and 
same rev. omitting the radiate circle. * 
28. Rdsi. 
Obv. A curious emblem called by natives croco- 
dile tail" with 12 dots above and 2 "legs" 
below. 
Rev, A design somewbat similar to that on the 
silver chuckram, which see. 
AV. Weight 5-75. Size -57. (Elliot 192). 
This appears to have been the principal and earliest coin 
of Malabar. In Travancore natives say it was minted by the 
mythical Parasu Kama. Logan in his " Malabar" vol. II., 
appx. p, 179 says of the Malabar coin, It has the same 14 
dots as the old Viray fanam. Rasi means a sign of the 
zodiac, so it is supposed the twelve dots are the twelve signs 
of the zodiac and the two separate dots the sun and the 
moon. The twelve zodiacal signs are divided into four 
good, four middling, and four bad, which may account for 
* Note. — The above patterns having all been struck in silver I am un- 
certain whether some of them were intended for issue in gold or in 
silver. 
