COINAGE OF ■J'KATANCORE. 
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^. Weight 18. Size "4. 
8. Doiihle Kdsu, 
Ohv. Conch within circle, margin dotted. 
Rev. Appears to be a conventional conch chiefly of 
dots, small circle, and two curved lines, within 
circle and dotted margin. 
M. Weight 17-5 ; size -48. Plate III., fig. 6. 
Prom Dr. Waring's Collection. 
9. (Current) Double Kdsu. 
Ohv- Human figure (Vishnu) standing, crowned, two 
pendents from the hands, Mai. 2 underneath, mar- 
gin dotted. 
Reu. . Solomon^'s Seal ornamented. Dotted margin. 
M Weight 17-75. Size -425. Plate III., fig. 7. 
Same period as Nos. 2 and 6. 
10. (Current) Kdsu. 
Ohv. Degraded representation of human figure, 
said to represent Vishnu, standing crowned, two 
pendents from the hands. Or might it be four 
arms of Vishnu ? 
Rev. Solomon's seal within circle and ornamental 
bordering, margin dotted, but the whole design is 
too large to shoAv on a single kasu. 
M. Weight 9'6. Size -36. Plate III., fig. 8. 
The term kasu, like pana, r^si, and chakram, is Sanskrit, 
indicating that the refinements of coining and arithmetical 
calculation came from that quarter. Europeans mispro- 
nounce it ''cash" and the same term was applied by the 
Portuguese to the small money of other foreign nations, 
especially the Chinese. 
The previous issue of single kasu, showing trifling dif- 
ferences, will be seen in c, in the engraving on p. 62. A 
considerable variety of old kasus are found, with some of 
which we close this enumeration, 
