IN SOUTHERN INDIA. 
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no silver currency, but their gold pagodas are frequently 
met with, still in every part of their once wide dominions. 
These pieces, usually averaging about 52 grains in weight, 
have been pretty exhaustively treated of by Surgeon-Greneral 
Bidie in his valuable contribution to the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal, a paper that has since been published in 'pamphlet 
form by Messrs. Higginbotham and Co. of Madras, and 
which should find a place in the library of every coin- 
collector in the presidency. Of silver coins they had none, 
but copper issues attributable to them are found over the 
length and breadth of Southern India. On one side these 
bear the figure of some deity of the Hindu mythology, 
while the reverses vary very considerably. The coins of 
Deva Raya bear usually with his name the figure of a bull 
or elephant, or the Gcmda Bherunda or double-headed bird 
so famiKar to us on palamposhes and tapestries. Tirumala 
has on the obverses of his pieces Hanuman (the monkey god). 
Krishna Deva takes Graruda, the winged vehicle of Yishnu. 
Sadasiva used Durgi, the boar incarnation of the same deity. 
A long series of apparently a later date bear on one side the 
word " Sridhara" in Telugu, and on the 
Nos. 21 and 22. . , , * , 
other a variety of symbols sucn as the sun, 
the sun and moon, an elephant, a lion, one or two snakes, a 
gecho, Narasimha (the Kon-f aced form of Vishnu), Hanuman 
(the monkey god) , Granesa in the form of an elephant, or 
two gods sitting side by side. There are two coins very 
similar to these to which 1 must here aUude, as I have seen 
them in more than one collection attributed to this series. 
The first of them, one-twentieth of an 
No. 23. . , , . , , 
anna m value, bears on one side the word 
£)?iod:ij either meaning " victory " or more probably the initial 
letters of a«aiodj?j^^.^qii.®?3^oci;3?5«^92!?23« (A.D. 1729—67) 
in whose reign the first issue was coined. The coin belongs 
" JouTBal As. Soc, Bengal, Vol. LI, Part I, 1883. 
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