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Hints to Ooin-Collecfors in Southern India. 
Part II. 
(By Captain R. H. CAMPBELL TITFNELL, M.S.C., F.Z.S., 
Member of the Numismatic Society of London.) 
In the first part of this paper, I touched very briefly on the 
chief characteristics and distinguishing marks of those coins 
which have been struck by the indigenous races of Southern 
India. In the present part, I propose to treat, equally 
briefly, of those minted by foreign powers in this part of 
the peninsula, leaving, as before, more detailed accounts for 
future treatment. 
Among these powers may be mentioned the Roman, 
Mahomedan, Portuguese, Danish, French, Dutch and Eng- 
lish, to each of whose issues, in turn, I propose briefly to 
allude. 
In treating of them, however, the first difiiculty which 
presents itself is the question of distinguishing those coins 
which have been actually struck on the spot from those which 
have found their way to these parts in the coui-se of trade, 
and especially difficult is this in the case of Roman issues. 
Though at fii-st Egypt was the medium of trade between 
Home and the Indies, we know that after the subjugation 
of that country by the imperial troops, a very considerable 
direct trade sprmig up between the two countries, and in 
consequence of this, the Eoman issues found in Southern 
India, the portion of the peninsula which boasted of the ports 
of Musiris and Barace, have hitherto been attributed to a 
Eui'opean mintage, and supposed to ha\-o been conveyed, iu 
