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W. Theobald —On certain symbols or devices on 
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Voces valent nil Paninm minaces. 
An membra telo geritis scelesti 
Figenda ? Patent aditns ad arcem. 
Vestrnm Patrem misereat Snpremum. 
Conditam saxo retinemns arcem 
Boumque plenam Sarama, atque eqnornm. 
Earn Panes vigilantes tnentnr. 
Vaimm tibi hoc est iter irritnmqne. 
Vos o superna nnmina invocata 
Factis sacris propitia line adeste. 
Raptas boves restituant latrones. 
Respuant Panes animiim hune snperbum. 
Faventibns Sarama freta divis 
Ansa es ad nostras penetrare sedes. 
Ne redeas ; te faciam sororem. 
Boves optatas tibi partiemnr. 
Ego nee fratres neqne vos sororem 
Novistis, Indrus superique testes, 
Qui me boves vehementer reposcnnt. 
Panes abeste pro cul hinc profani. 
On certain symbols or devices on the gold coins of the G-ujrfas.—By W. 
Theobald, M. N. S. L. Bedford, November, 1884. 
The following remarks have resulted from the perusal of an interest¬ 
ing and instructive paper on the Gupta coinage by V. A. Smith, Esq., 
published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Part I, for 
1884. 
The idea now advocated may have doubtless occurred to others who 
have made the Gupta and Indo-Scythian coins tlieir study, but it does 
not appear to have been published, nor is it in any way alluded to by 
Mr. Smith in his paper on these coins. 
The three symbols referred to are the ‘ fillet’ and the 4 cornu-copiae’ 
as they appear on the Gupta coins, as contrasted with similar symbols on 
Bactrian, Indo-Scythian and other coins, and the £ footstool’ which 
occurs on both the copper and gold Gupta and Indo-Scythian coins, 
beneath the sealed figure of ‘ Ardochro,’ and it is for these two latter 
symbols or devices, that a new, and it is believed a more correct interpre¬ 
tation is now offered. 
