174 Coins from Bulandshahar. [June, 
found in Bulandshahar on the site of its old Tort, some account of which 
has been given by Mr. Growse in his paper on the Bulandshahar Antiqui¬ 
ties (see Proceedings, Bengal Asiatic Society for May 1879). Two of the 
coins are Indo-scythian copper coins; the other two are early Hindu gold 
coins. Of the former, one is a round specimen of the well-known coins 
of Kadphises, with the head of king Hermaeus on the obverse and a stand¬ 
ing Hercules on the reverse (see Wilson’s Ar. Ant., V, 9; XI, 10). The in¬ 
scription, on both sides, is too much worn to be decipherable. The other 
Indo-scythian coin is also a round one and belongs to Azes. It is an exact 
counterpart of the specimen figured in Wilson’s Ar. Ant., VII, 17. The 
obverse has the king on horseback, the reverse a standing Minerva, both 
turned to the right. Of the two gold coins, one is a specimen of the so- 
called “ second series of Link-coins” of Prinsep. It is in fairly good pre¬ 
servation. On the obverse, there is the standing figure of the king, turned 
to the left, dressed in a suit bedecked with jewels and consisting of a tiara 
with the regal fillet, short coat with pendent sleeves, and trowsers. There 
is a nimbus round the head; the right hand points downwards to a small 
fire-altar; the left arm is raised, its hand resting on a spear or standard 
with pennons. Over the right hand and the fire-altar there is a trident with 
pennons. To the right of the fire-altar, and between it and the foot of the 
king, there is a small mark, looking like the letters clii in ancient Nagari. 
Between the feet of the king there is a row of dots or minute marks and 
above it some mark, which is almost entirely gone and now quite undistin- 
guishable. Both these marks may be seen on the coin figured in Prinsep’s 
Ind. Ant., XXIX, 10 (eel. Thomas). In some of the coins of the preceding 
series (of Vasudeva ?) in the cabinet of the Society the place of the chi- 
mark is occupied by the initial P of PAO, and that of the illegible mark 
by the final 0 of KOPANO. This circumstance may have been the origin 
of the marks on the present coin. Below the left arm, and between the 
body of the king and the staff of his spear, there are the letters si, quite 
distinct, in ancient (Gupta) Nagari; and below them some letter, looking 
like ka, but partly destroyed. On the other side of the staff, between it 
and the rim, there are, in large, very distinct Gupta characters, the letters 
shalca or shake arranged Chinese-fashion (| or J). Along the rim, there 
runs a circle of small, connected rings. On the reverse there is a draped 
female figure sitting on a high-backed, four-legged throne, looking'to the 
front, holding a cornucopia in her left and the royal fillet in her right hand ; 
her hair is dressed with jewels, and round the head there is a nimbus. On 
the right, between the frame of the throne and the rim, there are four very 
rudely cut letters, which seem to bear a faint resemblance to the Greek 
characters PAOX, which would be a remnant of the word APAOXPO or 
