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1834. J J. Gibbs —A JPa^^er on the Medals hnown as Uayntinhis^ 
A Paper on the Medals hnoum as Jdamtinhis.—JBy J. Gibbs, F. R. G. S., 
M. R. A. S., V. P. B. A. S. 
(With Plate No. VI.) 
In the note I read before the Society in April last on Ramtinhis, 
I intimated my intention of writing at greater length as soon as I could 
collect more materials. Since then I have been home and visited the 
British Museum and made inquiries there, and also from collectors of 
Indian coins, including Sir Walter Elliot, but regret that I have not 
been able to add much to the information I already possessed. I unfor¬ 
tunately missed General Pearce who had been for some time in Southern 
India, and who had made a collection of these medals—but from what 
I have since heard from Dr. Bidie, I do not think his collection will be 
found to differ much from my own. Dr. Da Cunha in Bombay has 
obtained some six or eight, but they all, save one, resemble some of my 
own specimens, the exception is a small and very much worn specimen 
which from the hurried glance I was obliged to be contented with, seemed 
different from any I had met with ; it was about an inch or an inch and 
an eighth in diameter, cup-shaped, but so rubbed that it was almost 
impossible to make out what was on ik I have since then had four sent 
me for inspection only, by my friend Rao Bahadur Trimulrao Venktesh 
from Dharwar; one of these is a half and the other three are quarter 
Ramtinkis; they all are of a similar description to the electrotype from 
Mysore, No. 5 in plate VI; the three quarter pieces were all alike, but two 
not in such good condition as the third. The following list will show 
those I have, together with some other varieties I have met with—their 
weights, diameters, and, in the case of those engraved—-the plate and 
number. 
1 J S 
^ 2 
.s 
1 
No. 
Descrip¬ 
tion. 
Quality of 
Gold. 
He verse. 
Owner, 
Plate. 
«.a 
•rH 
1 
Double. 
Good. 
Plain. 
J. P. Watson 
21 
1 
1,485 
2 
Whole. 
Pale, silver 
Plain. 
J. Gibbs 
2 
696 
alloy. 
Hanuman in 
3 
Very good. 
m 
690 
PI. VI, 
a rectangular 
space. 
No. 2. 
4 
Half. 
Pale, silver 
Plain. 
P om bay P ranch 
I 2 
364 
alloy. 
R. Asiatic So¬ 
ciety 
6 
Good. 
Hanuman near- 
Name unknown 
I3 
349 
ly effaced. 
6 
Quarter. 
Pale, silver 
Plain. I 
J. Gibbs 
180 
1 
nlloy. 
I 
1) D 
