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Philological Secretary — Report on old coins. 
[ A.PRIL, 
Class III, with crescent on reverse in right top of field :— 
Variety 1 (PI. II, fig. 9) : obv., r. arm pointing down, 1. 
arm raised; rev., r. arm pointing down, 1. arm a-kimbo 258 
Variety 2 PL II, fig. 10) : obv. and rev., r. arm raised, 1. 
arm pointing down . 50 
j3, Variety 3: obv. and rev., both arms bent at elbow 
at right angles, r. upward, 1. downwards . 1 
- 309 
Class IV, with crescent on both obverse and reverse :— 
Variety 1 : crescent on r. top of obverse, and 1. top of 
reverse :— 
Sub-variety a: obv., r. arm pointing down, 1. arm 
raised ; rev., r. level, 1. arm a-kimbo. 9 
Sub-variety b (PI. II, fig. 11): obv., both arms level; 
rev., v. arm level, 1. arm pointing down . 5 
Variety 2 : obv. and rev., crescent on 1. top ; also obv. 
and rev., r. arm pointing down, 1. arm raised . 1 
Variety 3 : obv. and rev., crescent, on r. top :— 
Sub-variety a : obv. and rev., r. arm raised, 1. arm 
pointing down . 2 
Sub-variety b : obv., r. arm pointing down, 1. 
arm raised ; rev., r. arm level, 1. arm a-kimbo. 2 
- 19 
Class V (PI. II, fig. 12), with crescent on head of reverse 
figure. Obv., r. arm level, 1. arm raised; rev., r. arm 
level, 1. arm a-kimbo . 1 
- 1 
Besides there are a number of specimens which are 
too badly preserved to admit of being classed in any 
of the above divisions ; altogether 46. 
Regarding the age of these coins, some conclusion may be drawn, 
from the fact of their association with coins which belonged to the 
Indo-Scythian coinage. They are clearly imitations of the latter 
coinage; and it may be assumed that they would not have been made, 
unless the Indo-Scythian coins had still been current in Northern India. 
There would have been no object in copying an obsolete coinage. The 
period of the Indo-Scythian coinage is fairly well-known. Kanishka 
reigned in the last quarter of the first century A.D. His copper coin¬ 
age, as well as imitations of it, passed current for about two centuries 
afterwards. They are found numerously in the Panjab, and occasionally 
much further east. The present, I believe, is the first occasion of any 
