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PANDYAN COINS. 
This com and the one which precedes it are sharp in 
outline and vigorous in execution. They seem to me to 
belong to a period perhaps a century earlier than the 
Singalese invasion. 
Fig. 12. Obverse. — Three fishes placed in a perpen- 
dicular position, with the moon above them. 
Reverse. — Plain. 
This coin, of which I have never seen a duplicate, must, 
I think, belong to an earlier period than the others figured 
on this series. With perhaps a single exception, it is the 
only Pandyan coin upon which three fishes are figured. 
Fig. 13. Obverse. — Two fishes and sceptre in upper part 
of field with bow to right and dagger to left : below, horse 
standing to left. 
Reverse. — Ceylon type. 
Fig. 14. Obverse. — Sitting Ceylon figure with a Tamil 
legend -st^^jt Sundara. 
Reverse. — Ceylon type. 
Fig. 15. Obverse. — One fish, horizontal, head to left : 
below, in two lines, the Tamil legend si-^^ffsrrr Sundarara 
(jah). 
Reverse. — Qejlon type. 
The last two coins belong doubtless to the same Sundara, 
who was otherwise known as K6n and who wa^ probably the 
most eminent of the line. 
