158 R. H. 0. Tnfnell —On a Collection of South Indian Goins. [Ko. 2, 
have never come across any mention of it. I refer to No. 15, a fanam 
corresponding to the pagoda of Sadasiva figured in Marsden’s “ Nu- 
7nismata 0rie7italia,^^ and again referred to in the issue of the Society’s 
Journal for 1883 (Fig. 13). 
No. 9 represents a fanam very rare now, but occasionally met 
with, having on one side a dragon (which seems to me to place it with the 
Udayars of Mysore) and on the reverse what looks like or the Na- 
gari “ sri.” This little coin attracted the attention of Sir Walter Elliot, 
who figures it in a plate of his “ Numismatic Gleanings,” devoted to 
coins of the Sinha type (Madras Literary Society’s Journal for 1858) ; 
but his only remark about it is, that it and its fellows “are gold fanams 
from various parts of the country,” and I know of no other notice of 
it. Copper issues bearing a similar device I have several times met 
with in different parts of Mysore, but the reverses bear nothing but 
the cross lines so common in the early issues of these parts. At the 
same time one specimen I have found which bears illegible traces of 
an inscription apparently in Nagari on the reverse, and I cannot help 
thinking that should the old copper coins in the Central Museum in 
Madras be examined, some clue may be found to the identification of 
the series. 
Nos. 7 and 8 carry us away to the Gajapati lords of Orissa. 
The pagoda of this series is one of the best known coins of Southern 
India. Marsden and Moore have both figured it, and it finds a place 
too in the XYIIth Vol. of the Asiatic Researches and in Dr. Bidie’s recent 
article on the “ Yarahas ”—while forged copies abound as brooches, pins, 
and sleeve-links. I have, however, never seen any notice of the ex¬ 
istence of a fanam or half fanam claiming direct kinship with it. The 
latter, the smallest coin I have ever seen, is especially rare, and this 
specimen was only sold to me as a great favour (and at a somewhat 
exorbitant figure), by a Mysorean who had it for generations in his 
family. The full fanam I have only met with twice. 
No. 6 bears the Sivaite bull on the obverse, and on the reverse 
the legend “Sri Chama Udaya” but to which of the Mysore kings of 
this name to assign it, I know not. 
Nos. 4 and 5 are two coins regarding which, as far as I ani 
aware, no notice has ever appeared, nor have all the enquiries I have 
made among natives led to any result. The former bears a figure 
standing before a sacred lamp on obverse and on reverse a goddess, 
presumably Lakshmi—seated in “padmasana,” on the lotus seat. The 
lamp may connect it with the Setupathis of Ramnad. The obverse of 
No. 5 seems identical with the last, and has on the reverse what looks 
like a warrior holding a club. 
