82 W. Theobald— Early Local Silver Coinages in N .- W. India. [No. 2, 
accident. For purposes of description I have before me eight coins, 
all probably from the same find, as six of them are the property of 
of Dr. Codrington, who supplied Sir W. Elliot with the coin figured by 
him. On seven of these coins the device is the same, though there are 
slight variations of detail due to the different dies employed. The 
principal figure on all the coins is a humped bull walking to the left. 
The horns form a crescent on the top of the head, and the hump is 
clearly marked. Beneath the bull is a solid square which with the 
other minor symbols forms part of the ‘ die ’ and is not a ‘ punch-mark ’ 
or independantly produced. Below the square is a hollow parallelo¬ 
gram, bounded by four lines and representing probably a ‘ tank.’ This 
figure is twice as broad as the square above it, but not quite equal to 
it in height. Above the rump of the bull is a small ‘ triskelis,’ and 
behind the ‘ triskelis ’ on the right a small ‘ svastika ’ with the open 
angle or concavity formed by the arms facing to the right. On each 
eide of the solid square is a ‘ taurine ’ pointing outwards or to the right and 
left respectively, and between the ‘taurine’ and ‘svastika’ a hollow or 
lined square. On some coins a circle with a dot in the centre is also 
seen near the margin, but not sufficiently well preserved in any coin to 
sny if the ‘ lingam-yoni ’ symbol is intended. The reverses of these 
coins differ somewhat from each other : On one is a tree, with bifid 
and trifid loaves or branches, possibly intended for a ‘ cactus’ or ‘ Eu¬ 
phorbia.’ On another a rude ‘ caitya.’ Some reverses seem blank, but 
most of these seem to have had a different design. On one is a small 
animal, probably a hare, standing within a circle, strongly recalling 
the symbol on punch-marked coins termed by myself ‘ Hare in the 
moon,’ and surrounded by an inscription, one of the letters strongly re¬ 
sembling the Grandharian character for ‘ rid 
All the above coins present essentially the same device, but on one 
coin in my possession there is introduced behind the bull a large twelve- 
rayed sun, larger than the bull and partly hidden by it. At first sight 
it appears as though the ‘ die ’ with the bull had been counterstruck 
on a piece with the ‘ sun ’ on it, but I am by no means sure that such 
was really the ease, and it is equally probable that the ‘ die ’-sinker 
first engraved the bull very deeply, and then in a shallower manner the 
sun behind it; and this is confirmed by the fact that the small ‘svas¬ 
tika’ which is usually close behind the bull, in this coin appears well 
outside the ‘ sun,’ inslead of counterstruck over it, as would seem to be 
what would have happened if two dies had been employed. Till how¬ 
ever, a second example turns up, the question must remain unsettled. 
No coin, moreover, with the solitary symbol of a twelve-rayed sun on it 
is known of this series. 
