80 W. Theobald— Early Local Silver Coinages in N.-1V. Lidia. [No. 2, 
Lastly, on two coins, traces are seen of a ‘ caitya,’ whereon the horse 
(if this attribution is correct) is standing, but which from the small size 
of the coin, has fallen outside its area; if this be so, coins may yet be 
discovered to clear up this point. The reverse of all these thirteen coins 
is blank, but on three of them a punch-mark, or shroff-mark as I con¬ 
sider it, has been stamped, a ‘ triskelis ’ a ‘ taurine/ (?) or circle, a mark 
like the letter R, the upright limb being shorter than the oblique one, 
and two short parallel strokes or bars. 
Adverting now to the three coins whereon an impression has been 
made by a reverse die, the ninepin-like symbol occurs on the obverse 
of all of them, only rather more fish-like than usual. On one of them 
the lower symbol may be fairly construed to represent a horse with a 
flowing tail; on another the design is too blurred for recognition; whilst 
on the third the animal may be intended for a horned bovine. On two 
of these coins the reverses are too imperfectly preserved for descrip¬ 
tion, but on one the design consists of a central boss round which three 
equidistant half-circles or crescents are ranged with their cusps out¬ 
wards. Some rude ornament occupies the concavity of the crescents 
which are separated from each other by a Y-shaped mark, having the 
arms directed outwards. These three coins are round (not square like 
the others) of very rude fabric, and weigh 69 grains, or 23 grains each, 
and do not appear to have suffered loss through wear. 
Two square coins with blank reverse, and weighing together forty- 
eight grains, have an entirely different symbol on them from any above 
described. The ‘ dies ’ are not identical, as on one of them a 4 taurine 9 
is present, and a rhomboidal arrow-head or dwarf 4 thyrsus 9 alongside 
of it, both of small size, the arrow-head being identical with the 
similar mark on the 4 Taxila ’ gold coin figured in Coins of Ancient 
India , plate II, fig. 18, where it forms one of the segments or elements 
which constitute the 4 thunderbolt ’ symbol (as it may be called) 
which occupies the reverse of that coin, and it would be interesting 
if a link could be traced between this symbol and the 44 dorje 19 used 
in Buddhist worship at present in Tibet. 
The symbol which occupies the area of the coin is one as difficult 
to describe as it is unintelligible. The object is sub-symmetrical and 
sub-polygonal with four or five projecting angles, and bounded in part 
by a slightly convex line. From the convex line, rise four slightly radi¬ 
ating strokes followed to the left hand by one or two much longer ones 
which curve over to the left. Though not quite identical, the object repre¬ 
sented on both coins is the same, though obscure to a degree. It once 
occurred to me that the design might be intended for a human hand, 
and have reference to the idea recorded on a gem procured by Conelly 
