1895.] Philological Secretary — Report on old coins. 65 
Indo-Scythian copper coins having been found in the extreme east of 
North India. The fact of their having been found near Purl, the site 
of an ancient shrine, and place of pilgrimage, may account for it. The 
cast coins of the present find are clearly local imitations of Indo- 
Scythian coins, and their age cannot well be later than the fourth cen¬ 
tury A.D. Whether they were intended to pass current as coins, in the 
ordinary sense, may not be quite certain. They may have been meant 
to be used as temple-offerings by the pilgrims, similar to certain imita¬ 
tions of Yaudheya coins found in the Panjab. Possibly they may have 
been only intended as ornaments. * 
The weights of the (apparently) Indo-Scythian coins I have found 
to vary between 120 and 230 grains. The weights of the cast coins are as 
follows :— 
Class 
I, 
varying 
from 122 to 211 
grains 
11 
II, 
a 
,, 
116 „ 176 
ii 
11 
III, 
ii 
,, 
106 „ 162 
it 
11 
IV, 
ii 
5 , 
112 „ 146 
ii 
11 
V, 
ii 
11 
164. 
The weight (full) of genuine Indo-Scythian Kanerki copper-coins, as 
given by Sir A. Cunningham, is from 130 to 260 grains. 
(XII) Report on 32 old silver coins forwarded by the Collector 
of Burdwan, with his No. 2460G-, dated the 18th March, 1895. 
These coins belong to a lot of 63 which are said to have been 
dug out from a ruined house belonging to some persons in Rasulpur, 
Thana Kulna, apparently in January, 1895. Only 32 of the lot, those 
now under report, were recovered by the police. 
All the 32 coins are rupees of the Mughul emperor ‘Alamglr II, 
who reigned from 1167-1173 H. = 1754-1759 A. D. They are all of 
the mint Murshidabad, and the year 1171 H. and the 4th regnal year. 
They bear the usual mint-mark of Murshidabad, a five-rayed star, 
on the reverse, but on the obverse they show, in addition, a small sun 
over the he of badshah , similar to that on the Murshidabad issue of 
1180 H. of Shah ‘Alam (see British Museum Catalogue, No. 1188, 
Plate XXIX). 
(XIII) Report on 892 old copper coins, forwarded by the Deputy 
Commissioner of Mandla, with his No. 1991, dated the September, 
1894. 
These coins are stated to have been found in a field in the 
Mauzah Kindrl, in the Mandla Tahsll. 
