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[No. 4, 
Y. ACYUTA. 
Type 1. 
Obv. [ ?T ] Acyu[ta] in large, bold, raised letters, occupying the field, 
within a dotted circle. 
Rev. 8-rayed sun, or wheel, in relief. Small circular copper coin; diameter '6; 
weight 15 gr. (Plate XXXVIII, fig. 15.) [V. A. Smith.] 
Type 2. 
Obv. Portrait bust of king to r. The features are those of a young man, the 
head seems to be bare, and the nose is straight. The style suggests a Roman origin. 
In 1. field, behind the king’s head 'W A ; and in r. field, before the king’s face, 
cyu. The characters are minute, in low relief. 
Rev. 8-rayed sun or wheel. 
Small circular copper coin, diameter *48; Wt. 12 gr. (Plate XXXVIII, fig. 
16.) [Delmerick.] 
Both coins seem to me to be cast. The margins give clear indica¬ 
tions of the nse of a mould, and the 8-rayed sun of both types seems 
also to have been cast. The portrait bust of Type 2, however, may 
have been struck by a die on the blank face of a cast coin. 
So far as is at present known, the coins of both types are found 
only at Bamnagar, near Aonla in the Bareli District, the site of the 
ancient Ahichatra, or Adliichatra, the capital of Northern Pancala. 
Type 1 has been already published (J. A. S. B. Part I, for 1880 PI. 
VII, figs. 2A, 2B). The coin shown in figure 2A of the plate referred to 
is similar to my specimen, which is now figured for facility of 
reference. The form of the letters of Mr. Bivett-Carnac’s figure 2B 
slightly differs. The characters on both specimens of Type 1 approxi¬ 
mate generally to those of the Kusana inscriptions of Northern India 
(See Btihler’s Palceographie PI. III). The British Museum possesses 
several specimens of this type from the Cunningham cabinet. My 
specimen was presented to me by Mr. C. S. Delmerick, who is the 
owner of the present unique example of Type No. 2. 
In a note to my dissertation on “ The Conquests of Samudra 
Gupta,” sent in May 1897 to the Boyal Asiatic Society for publica¬ 
tion, I have discussed these remarkable coins, and proposed to read the 
incomplete king’s name Acyu as Acyuta. Mr. Bapson (J. It. A. S. 
April 1897, p. 420) has independently adopted the same reading, and 
proposes, as I also had proposed, to attribute the coins to the king 
Acyuta of Northern India who was defeated by Samudragupta about 
A.D. 350. 1 
1 I had sent home my paper on “ The Conquests of Samudra Gupta ” before 
Mr. Rapson’s note reached me, and he was similarly ignorant of my views when he 
wrote. 
