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1901.] W. Theobald —Copper Corns of Ancient India. 
Copper, square, cut from a ribbon seven-eighths of an inch broad, 
and a trifle more than an eighth in thickness. Weight 347 grains, 
showing a deficiency of but thirteen grains from the theoretical weight 
of a two-and-a-half Pana piece. The coin is of neat execution and but 
slightly worn. On the Obverse are five symbols, separately impressed 
with a punch. 
(a) A ‘ Stupa ’ of three chambers with a crescent above. 
( b ) A sixteen-petalled lotus flower, Jour. As. Soc. Ben., Vol, VII, 
PI. LXI, fig. 5, where this emblem is borne on the head of 
a staff in a man’s hand, on a round coin of Ujain, and it also 
occurs on a square coin of Eran now in the B.M. from the 
Cunningham collection. 
(c) A central sphere supporting three ‘ Chattras ’ and three ‘ Tau¬ 
rines.’ 
(d) Two similar symbols of doubtful meaning, within an oval area. 
This symbol may be a variant of the ‘ vine ’ as seen on the 
coins of Taxila (A.I., II, fig. 9) on which the curling tendrils 
and clusters of grapes can be easily made out. In the pre¬ 
sent coin this is not the case but the symbol may have been 
unintelligently copied by the artist from an imperfect exam¬ 
ple of the Taxila coin. 
( e ) The last symbol is only partially preserved, and would seem to 
be an extreme variant of the ‘ triskelis ’ of a novel character. 
It consists of a central boss and ring round it, outside of 
which are three elongate curved bodies, the tapering end or 
head directed to the left, whilst the other end is abruptly 
truncate or hamate and bent upwards and backwards as 
though to represent the tail of a fish. If this idea is correct 
the symbol probably represents three dolphins, as seen on 
many Greek coins. 
These five symbols are all that can be made out on the Obverse. 
On the Reverse are— 
(/) An hour-glass-shaped body not quite equally divided into an 
upper and lower portion, the latter being slightly the larger 
and terminating below in a short median and symmetrical stem. 
(</) Immediately below is a remarkable figure, which may be des¬ 
cribed as the segment of a wheel, pendant from a ring 
surrounding a small central opening. The segment is nearly 
the quarter of a circle; the spokes are four in number and 
separated by three triangular interspaces. The symbol re¬ 
calls one of the Egyptian emblems of Deity, known as the 
‘ Tail of the Sacred Vulture,’ wherein is embodied the 
