IN SOrXHERX INDIA. 
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On the fall of Tipu and the return to power of the 
Hindu line, the elephant was at first con- 
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tmued, but the Persian inscription gave 
place to Kanarese and a rude style of English in which it ia 
not unusual to find one or more letters upside down. Shortly 
afterwards the Mysore lion was substituted for the elephant, 
and this device continued to be in vogue 
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till the province ceased to have a dis- 
tinctive coinage of its own. In gold the Hindu raj still held 
to the old Ikkeri type of pagoda, which with a difi'erent 
reverse had been continued through the Musalman period, 
the words " Sri Maharaja Krishna " now taking the place 
of Hyder's initial. He also made a re-issue of the canteroy 
fanam and a series in silver of (approximately) four, two, 
and one anna pieces, bearing on one side the dancing figure 
of Chamundi and on the other an inscription in Hindustani 
on the larger, and in Kanarese on the 
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two smaller issues. All these are very 
plentiful still in Mysore. 
Having thus rapidly glanced at the various coinages of the 
different dynasties which have been indigenous to Southern 
India, and endeavoured to point out some of the symbols, 
which alone in so many instances can guide us in the identi- 
fication of these coins, and in the hope that such may prove 
of some assistance to the tyro, who is just beginning this 
most fascinating pursuit, I reserve for a future paper the 
consideration of those coins which, though still plentiful 
in Southern India, were struck by powers foreign to this 
country, such as the Romans, Pathans, Moghuls, Dutch, 
French, English, Portuguese, &c., all of which occur with 
more or less frequency and are apt to confuse the tyro 
considerably. 
