1897.] 
R. Hoernle — Notes on Coins of Native States. 
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Notes on Coins of Native States.—By A. F. Rudolf Hoernle, Ph.D., C.I.E. 
(With Plates XXXI-XXXIV.) 
[Read May, 1897.] 
This paper is based almost entirely on materials supplied to me 
by Mr. C. Maries, the Curator of the Museum and Superintendent of the 
Horticultural Garden in Gvaliyar. The description of the coins is 
derived from manuscript notes of Mr. Maries, put together by him, 
I understand, at the suggestion of His Highness the Maharaja of 
Gwalior. The facsimiles of the coins were prepared by the artist of 
the Calcutta Museum, mostly from the originals, kindly lent to me by Mr. 
Maries for the purpose ; a very few of the originals are in the posses¬ 
sion of Mr. Bushford. 
The notes, here put together, are necessarily of a very desultory 
character. Some of the information is uncertain, and must be taken 
with some reservation. Very little is known as yet of the coinages of 
the numerous Native States. Their coins are of the crudest make, 
with no pretence whatever to art and very little to legibility, and are 
hardly ever complete. It is no wonder, therefore, that hitherto they 
have not been thought worth the attention of the numismatist. They 
seem to be of no historic interest: though, perhaps, when more is 
known of them, they may be found not devoid of historical value. 
A small, but useful contribution on the coins of Native States 
(with two plates) is the well-known one of J. Prinsep in his “ Useful 
Tables,” pp. 64-68. But the most useful existing work on the subject 
is Mr. Webb’s Currencies of Rdjputdnd . 1 It is limited, however, in its 
scope, and not exhaustive even with regard to the States it notices. 
Much information may also be obtained from the Catalogue of the 
Coins of the Indian Museum in Calcutta, which was prepared by 
Mr. Chas. J. Rodgers. A considerable portion of its Part II (pp. 140- 
219) describes the large collection of coins of Natives States, which 
J- The Currencies of the Hindu States of Rajputana, by William Wilfrid Webb, 
M.B., of the Indian Medical Service; illustrated by a Map and twelve Plates of 
Coins. Westminstei', 1893. 
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