1894.] V. A. Smith — History and Coinage of the Gupta Period. 197 
The same author has discussed the coins of the Toramana of 
Ka^mlr at greater length in another place. “ There are other coins.” he 
observes, “ with the naine of Kidara which undoubtedly belong to Kacpnir. 
The earliest are the well-known copper pieces of Toramana, and the 
gold and silver coins of his son Pravarasena. As the existing coins 
of Toramana, which are found in considerable numbers in Kaymir, are 
confined to one class of copper pieces, ranging from 100 to 120 grains 
in weight, it seems not improbable that what Toramana did was to 
collect the old coins called Bdla-liats , and to re-coin them as Dinars in his 
own name. ... The money thus re-coined, I take to have been the bar¬ 
barous pieces of the later Kusan princes, whose names are unknown. 
These pieces vary in weight from 100 to 125 grains, with the king 
standing on the obverse, and Qiva and his bull on the reverse. The 
coins of Toramana and his son Pravarasena are so superior in execution 
to these coins and to all the contemporary coins of North-West India, 
that I look upon them as the first real issue of the Kapmir mint. ... I 
much doubt whether there was any previous coinage in Kaxpnlr.” 1 
Two of these Toramana coins of Kaymlr are noticed and figured in 
Thomas’ Prinsep, p. 389, PI. xxxi, pp. 13, 14. 
Obv. Rude standing figure of king, with legend ^ fftT^TL^] 
Qn Tdramd[na~\. 
Rev. Rude Laksmi, with legend yaya. These coins are 
said to be common. The king’s figure is filled out 
in considerable detail, though roughly. 8 
Certain Tora coins, collected by Mr. Rodgers, which are now in the 
cabinet of Mr. W. Theobald of Budleigh Salterton, exhibit a much more 
degraded form of the Standing King device, and cannot well be assigned 
to the White Hun Toramana, A.D. 500. 
The Standing King of these coins (Nos. 1 and 2) is reduced to the 
barest skeleton of a rude diagram. I annex sketches and descriptions. 3 
1 Hum. Chron. for 1893, pp. 190-193. 
2 One of these coins is in the Lahore Museum. Weight 96'8, diam. 8. Mr. 
Rodgers also says that coins of this class are common. ( Catalogue of Coins in 
Lahore Museum, p. 54). In Coins of Mediaeval India Cunningham has described and 
figured two varieties of the Ka^mir copper coinage of Tdramana, of which one is 
very rare, and the other common. Pravarasena’s coinage also is found in two 
forms, one in gold, and the other in silver ( Coins of Mediaeval India, pp. 42, 43, 
PI. iii, 1-4.) 
3 A coin very similar to No. 1 has been published by Dr. Hoernle ( Proc. As. 
Soc. Bengal for 1885, p. 5, PL I, 14.) Among 60 coins from the Panjab, nearly all 
coins of Toramana and Mihirakula, there was only one specimen with the skeleton 
figure. Dr. Hoernle’s description is as follows : — 
“ Obv. Crude standing figure of king, facing to the front with left arm 
akimbo, its right resting on a spear or staff, somewhat resembling 
the figure on the later Indo-Scythian coins. 
