IN SOUTHERN INDIA. 
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long some record of the researches of those who have made 
a stady of those coins their specialite may appear in these 
pages. There is, however, one branch of the Chela issues 
to which I must briefly allude. The tyro will probably find 
among his coins ere long a type which, while resembling 
generally the common issues of Raja Eaja, yet differs from 
them in a marked degree. The coins I allude to are more 
perfectly round, the figures stand out in bolder relief, the 
letters are in a squarer type of Nagari, and whereas the 
edges of the Indian type are worn thin, these are usually 
as square as a modern shilling. These coins, known as the 
Simhalese (Cingalese) type of Cholas, were struck by the kings 
of Ceylon, the Indian Chola coin being in all probability the 
prototype. The incursions of the Cholas would naturally lead 
to the introduction of their coins, and it is more than probable 
that this led to the coinage of the series in the island. Two 
specimens of these I figure,^ the former 
Nos. 11 and 12. ^ . \ . ■ , ■ -, 
appearing only m copper and being fairly 
common, while the latter, known as the " Lankesvara " coin, 
is of gold and by no means rare. Both are issues of Para- 
krama the great (A.D. 1153), and their constant occurrence 
in Southern India goes to prove the intimate connection that 
must have existed between the island and mainland, though 
this does not always appear to have been of a friendly nature. 
Later Indian issues, while retaining the original obverse, 
have on the reverse sometimes an elephant and sometimes a 
bull (as in No. 13), but as none of these bear any name or 
title it is impossible to say whether they should be attributed 
to rulers of the island or the continent. 
The Pandyan emblem, as I have said, was the fish, and 
this appears sometimes singly in the centre of the coin with 
a sun and moon in the field, while in others two fish are 
' A very full description of this series will be found in Rhys Davis' article 
in Vol. I of the "Numismata Orientalia," Part VI. 
