JOURNAL 
OP THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY 
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Part I.-HISTORY, LITERATURE, 
No. II.—1873. 
Note on two Coins from Kausamhhi , — By The Honorable E. C. Bayley, 
c. s. I., a s. 
The two coins which I lay before the Society, come from the site of 
the ancient city of Kausamhhi, situate on the river Jamuna, near Allahabad, 
a full description of which will be found in Genl. Cunningham’s work on 
the Geography of Ancient India, Yol. I, pp. 391-98, as also in his Archaeolo¬ 
gical Reports from 1862 to 1865, Yol. I, p. 301. 
Babu Sivaprasad, C. S. I., the Inspector of Schools for the Banaras Divi¬ 
sion, to whom General Cunningham acknowledges his obligations for infor¬ 
mation regarding this site, some time ago sent me several coins found upon 
it. I told him, that though evidently containing types of much interest, they 
were unfortunately too imperfect for identification, but that I had no 
doubt, more perfect coins would yield a valuable result. 
Babu Sivaprasad has now sent me the two present coins with a few 
others of less interest, one of the latter is of the type which Col. Stacy 
termed the “ Cock and Bull” type, and bears the legend ‘ Deva mita (sa ?).’ 
Tliis coin, however, is not from Kausamhhi, but from Eastern Audli. 
The first of the two coins which I am about to describe (Fig. i), is 
rather thin, weighing 37035 grains, and is of a white metal which does not 
appear to be silver, but which I have not ventured to clean. The reverse bears 
a rude and faint representation of some animal, apparently the Indian bull. 
The obverse bears, in the field of the coin, the symbols of the sacred tree on 
the left; in the middle a curious semicircular disk, with a sort of handle and 
some marks within the semicircle, more like a spade or similar agricultural 
instrument than anything else to which I can compare it. 
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