192 Y. A. Smith — History and Coinage of the Gupta Period. [No. 4, 
own. If my suggestion that these coins are issues of Toramana should 
prove to he correct, the barbarian head on the obverse of Class II, may 
be a portrait of Toramana himself.” 1 * 
I think it probable that these anonymous coins were really issued 
by Toramana, as suggested by Dr. Hoernle. The king’s head is so 
rudely executed in all the varieties that to call it a “ portrait ” is rather 
an exaggeration. It seems to me a merely conventional delineation. 
Multitudes of rude coins of Sassanian type without legends have been 
found in Northern India, of which many may have been struck by 
leaders of the Huns. The coins of the hoard described by Dr. Hoernle 
in detail are only remarkable because they imitate so closely the coins of 
one Persian king issued within the limits of a period of about sixteen 
years, and can, consequently, be dated with approximate accuracy, and 
assigned with probability to a particular Hun chief. 
I have some small size anonymous Indo-Sassanian coins which were 
found at Bhitari between (xhazlpur and Benares. Some obtained at 
that place by Cunningham were assigned by him to the eighth or ninth 
century, 3 but I am inclined to think that they must be earlier. Similar 
coins have been found at Indor Khera in the Bulandshahr District, 
associated with ruins of the Gupta period. 3 A rude reminiscence of the 
Sassanian reverse device is found as late as A.D. 900 on the coins of 
Vigraha Pala of Magadha. 4 
Like most branches of Indian numismatics, the Indo-Sassanian 
series requires much more study and elucidation than it has yet 
received. 
To return to Toramana. 
III.— Fantail Peacock Hemidrachm Type. 
His hemidrachms with Fantail Peacock reverse exactly copy the 
Gupta coins of the same type, except that the king’s head is turned 
to the left, instead of the right. The only two specimens hitherto 
1 P roc., A. S. B., for 1889, p. 229. Figures of typical specimens of each variety 
of the hoard will be found in Jour., A. 8. B ., Pt i, Yol. LIX, (1890), PI. v. Some 
specimens from the hoard are now in the British Museum. 
3 Arch. Rep., Vol. I, p. 97. 
3 Ibid., Vol. XII, pp. 44, 68. 
4 Ibid., Yol. XI, pp. 175, 181, PI. xliii. The coins with the Sassanian dovioe 
evidently belong to the first Vigraha Pala. His namesake lived about a century 
later. See Coins of Mediaeval India, pp. 49 to 52. 
