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gram and above it one of the letters, C, G, or T (not impro- 
bably to denote the town of mintage, Colombo, Galle or 
Trincomallee) . On those in which the C surmounts the mono- 
gram the word " stiver " appears in full with the date below. 
Those with 0 and T have the abbreviated form of the value, 
while on the 2 stiver piece of Gralle (?) the value, 2 ST, 
occurs below the monogram and on the reverse under the date 
the letters @6u the initial of " Elankai," the vernacular name 
of Ceylon. The difference in style and make between these 
two series of coins, the " challis " and the thick ones now 
described, is so extremely marked that I think there can 
hardly be a doubt, but that the former were made in a 
European mint and exported for the Eastern ciu-rency, while 
the latter have the most decided appearance of being " coun- 
try-made." One particularly rough specimen I came across 
in a village near Colombo, which consisted of a small bar 
of metal about the size of one's little finger, with either end 
flattened out, the monogram occupying one end and the 
value, 4J ST, the other. This piece has, I believe, now 
found a fit resting place in the Colombo museum. Belong- 
ing to this series is a neatly executed j stiver piece, having 
on the obverse the monogram surmounted by a C and on the 
reverse J ST. The greater number of these thick coarse 
coins, however, bear no date, and are smaller than those 
already described, and these (or most of them) were un- 
doubtedly struck on the main land. By far the commonest 
have above the monogram the initial letter of the mint town, 
Negapatam, whUe on the other side occurs the name of that 
port in full /s- sot lo, thus affording additional evidence 
of the truth of the theory that the C, Gr, and T alluded to 
above were intended, as suggested by Mr. Ehys Davids 
(p. 36) to serve a similar piu-pose. Another small series of 
coins, which I figure as Nos. 52, 53 and 
^^Pl. IV, fig. 52, 53, Iqj^. j ^j^j^j^^^ satisfactorily describe 
them, bears above the monogram the 
letter P, doubtless for the mint town PuUcat, where we know 
