1897.] y. A. Smith — Numismatic Notes and Novelties. 9 
Mr. Rodgers once showed me a thin circular brass coin, diameter 
•65, which had on obverse a two-storied building (? temple), and a worn 
legend, perhaps in B rah mi (Nagarl) characters, and, on reverse, tree in 
railing, with Kharosthi legend, which I did not read. 
Prinsep ( Thomas , PI. XIX, 7) gives a drawing of a large circular 
copper coin from Behat near Sabaranpur, which exhibits the character¬ 
istic high-roofed building, and traces of letters, probably in the Brahmi 
alphabet, like those now described. The buildings shown on the coins 
have a considerable resemblance to the store-houses, or granaries, 
depicted on the Sohgaura copper-plate from the Gorakhpur District 
( Proc.j A. S. B. for 1894, p. 84, Plate I), though the Sohgaura struc¬ 
tures have double roofs. 
The coins now published may be safely ascribed to the Odumbara 
tribe of Karjgra, and dated somewhere about the beginning of the 
Christian era. 
VI. 
XIY. SAURASTRA (? ARJUNA). 
Silver hemidrachm, thick ; diameter *55. Wt. 45*5 gr. [Rawlins.] 
Obv. Bust to r., much defaced. 
Rev. Svastika in centre. Legend round margin in characters similar to those 
of the eai'lier Saurastran coins, but difficult to read. It looks like ipc['R]^I5T 
The legend seems to include the name of Arjuna, and the 
word putrasa, the genitive of putra , * a son.’ 
The coin certainly seems to belong to the Saurashtran series, but 
no other example of the svastika reverse device is known, and the legend 
seems to be different from that on any published coin. No Raja Arjuna 
appears to be known. 
VII. 
XV. A NORTHERN SATRAP. 
Circular, thick, copper ; diameter ‘65. Wt. 78’ 5 gr. [Rawlins.] 
Obv. Horse to r. grazing. Marginal Kharosthi legend, read from outside 
... mahachatrapasa. 
Rev. Female to front, with r. hand raised, and 1. on hip, standing in a rectan¬ 
gular frame, of which the right post springs from a railing. A crenellated ornament 
on top of frame. 
The horse connects this unpublished coin with the coins of the 
Satraps Hagana and Hagamasa. ( Coins of Anc. India , p. 87). But 
the horse on those coins is to 1., and the legend is in Brahmi characters. 
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