238 E. A. Gait — Note on some Goins of the Koch Kings. [No. 3, 
There is a coin of LaksmI-narayana in the possession of the 
Society, 1 the date on which is 1509 paka, and another coin of the 
same date has been described in the Arunodai (an Assamese Vernacu¬ 
lar Magazine) of March 1851. I have in my possession a third coin, 
also dated P'aka 1509. It will be noticed that the third figure in the 
specimen reproduced by Marsden is somewhat blurred, and I am in¬ 
clined to think that the real date of this coin also is 1509 paka. There 
must in any case be some mistake about the date reported by Marsden 
to be on another coin of Lnksml-narayana (No. MCCIV) which unfor¬ 
tunately has not been reproduced by him. He gives the date of the 
coin in question as paka 1659. Allowing for the misreading of the 
second figure this would be 1559, whereas the coin of Prana-narayana 
already referred to bears date 1555. Most probably, the true date 
on tliis coin also is paka 1509. 
An earlier coin than either of the above was found some years ago 
in the Garo Hills, and described in the Journal , Asiatic Society of 
Bengal, XLIV, page 306. This is a coin of Nara-naraynna, the second 
and greatest Koch King, and is dated paka 1477 (Plate XXIV, 1). 
I have procured two more specimens of this king’s coins, both bearing 
the same date, but differing in the shape of the letters, while one of 
them has the word Bhupdlasya inserted after Narayana (Plate XXIV, 2). 
A careful search for coins of this dynasty has been in progress for 
some time past, but it has only resulted in the discovery of one new 
full coin, which has been presented to the Society by the owner, 
Babu Tanuram, Mauzadar of Hastinapur in Barpeta. The reading of 
this coin is :— 
Obverse.—Cr Cr Raghu-deva-ndrdyana-pdlasya Cake 1510. 
Reverse.—Cr Cr Uara-gauri-carana-kamala-madhuicarasya. 
Particular interest attaches to this coin, because while the others 
all belong to Nara-narayana or his descendants who ruled in the 
Western Koch Kingdom, this is the first specimen which has come to 
light which bears the name of a king of the Eastern Kingdom. 2 
Ragliu-deva or Raghu Rai as he is called in the Vamgavall of Raja 
1 Procured for me two years ago by Babu Madhav-candra Bardalai, Sub- 
Divisional officer of Barpeta, vide Proceedings, August 1893, page 146. [The date 
shown in the Proceedings (1069) is a misprint], 
2 For the genealogy of these kings, see my paper on the Koch Kings of 
Kamarupa, Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, LXII page 305. I take this oppor¬ 
tunity to correct a misprint on the page in question ; the date in the sixth line from 
the bottom should be 1658 A. D. and not 1558 A. D. The coin here referred to was 
exhibited to the Society in May 1895, vide Proceedings for that month. 
