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punch-marked coins of Hindustan, ^e. 
279. A bear standing to the left with its head reverted, as if in 
the act of gazing at some object behind it. This is also on an oval 
silver coin in my own cabinet and the only example I am acquainted 
with. The figure is rude but the outline very characteristic, and the 
animal may even bo identified with the snow-boar by one acquainted 
with both species of bear occurring in the Himalayas. 
280. A circular ‘ boss ’ surrounded by pear-shaped bodies separat- 
ed by trifid branches. A curious and wholly unintelligible symbol. 
281. A ‘ rat ’ to right within a circular area. This occurs on an 
oval silver coin in my own cabinet. The animal has a moderately long 
tail, and a I’at is the only animal that it can be intended for. It is a 
‘ reverse ’ symbol. 
282. An egg or some oviil body. This symbol occurs on the same 
coin as the last, also on the reverse. 
283. Two balls or circle.s, with a dot in the centre, and connected 
by a 7, the whole within an oval area. This too is a reverse symbol 
on the same coin as the last. 
28-li. Symbol No. 199, with two fish below within an oblong tank. 
285. Symbol No. 1 with a ‘Taurine’ on the right, within a rec- 
tangular area. Whether there is another ‘Taurine’ on the left is not 
certain. 
286. This symbol is related to, or a variant of No. 137. It is a 
curious symbol and seems to contain two letters of identical pat- 
tern as those met with on terra-cotta seals and pottery at Troy 
( Schliemaun’s Troy, page 24). That on the left resembles a rudely 
formed ‘ psi,’ whilst that on the right consists of an upright stroke, 
with a short sloping stroke on either side. On the terra-cotta seals, these 
two letters are combined into a monogram, with two additional characters 
added on the right, and it is not improbable that similar characters are 
intended in figures 85, 86 and 87, on Plate II of this paper. Pig. 205 
seems a mere variant of fig. 203, where the left hand cliaracter is re- 
placed by a square. 
288. Bow and arrow, with a ‘ Taurine ’ below, the whole enclosed 
within a symmetrical area. It may be observed that the ‘ bow ’ depicted 
on these coins is not the straight long bow used by the aborigines at 
present, but the elaborately curved bow, straight in the centre, with 
curved ends. 
288. Symbol No. 29, only the ‘ Tattrines’ replaced by squai’e- 
headed nail-shaped objects. 
289. Symbol No. 28, only circles replaced by ovals, enclosing 
‘ lamps ’ or whatever fig. 63, Plate I, may be intended to represent. 
290. A ‘ Taurine ’ in a square area. It is seldom this symbol 
occui's by itself. It is on a square silver coin in my own cabinet. 
