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1897.] V. A. Smith— Numismatic Notes and Novelties. 
in North-Western India, whom the Greeks call Assakenoi, and state 
(Arrian, Indica , I, 1) to have inhabited the country west of the Indus 
as far as the Kophen. It may further be mentioned that some old 
Indian tribes, like the Yaudheyas, were actually divided into sections 
or ganas , as well as that, as the case of the Audumbaras shows, tribes 
were occasionally named after trees.” (“Origin of Brahmi alphabet,” 
Ind. Stud. No. Ill, Wien, 1895, p. 46.) 
Dr. Biihler has been equally successful in explaining the legends 
of another class of Taxila coins, concerning which Cunningham 
indulged in very ill-founded conjectures. I refer to the coins bearing 
the legend negamd. This word, which is common enough in Pali and 
the epigraphic Prakrits, and occurs in the Bhattiprolu stupa inscriptions, 
means always ‘the traders,’ or ‘members of a guild’ ( nigama ). 
The use of the word on the Taxila coins shows that they were issued as 
current tokens by traders. The other words which are found on a 
few specimens, [ T]alimata , A\taka~\tahd dujaka, or dojaka, are supposed 
by Biihler to be the names of guilds. The word talimata (read by 
Cunningham as rdlimita), may, like Vatasvaka have a totemistic 
reference to a tree, a species of palm (Skr. tali-, Corypha taliera (Roxb.), 
or Flacourtia cataphracta) , (op. cit. p. 47). 
The copper coin below described seems to belong to the Taxila 
series, and to be unpublished. 
Obv. Sun (cross in circle), and crescent. 
Rev. Taurine symbol in small incuse. 
A thick dumpy coin, roughly square, with rounded corners, diameter ’55 to ’60 inch; 
thickness about 2 m.m., or inch. Wt. 75 gr. (Plate XXXVIII, fig. 3.) [V. A. 
Smith.] 
( 
Mr. L. White King, I.C.S., possesses three unpublished types 
of the Taxila series, as described below. The second symbol on B looks 
like a foriii of the letter t: 
No. A. Obv. 
