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Numismatic Supplement. 
[No. 4, 
C. Gadhaiya Paisa imitations of B: At: diameter much reduced but 
thickness pronounced: average weight of twenty-one coins 62 grains. 
Obverse : Face less and less discernible, resembling at last a 
mallet or globe-headed stud: ear much elongated and 
separated from head : wavy line still present. 
Reverse : Arrangement of lines, parallelograms, and dots distantly 
suggestive of a fire-altar. 
With tbe exception of the crescent above the crown, the latest 
Gadhaiya coins in silver and all in copper have scarcely a trace remain¬ 
ing of the Sassanian prototype. They exhibit on one side a thick un¬ 
wieldy mace in a field of dots and on the other mere rows of dots and 
lines. 
The accompanying two Plates have been prepared from exquisite 
photographs taken from plaster casts of the coins by my kind friend 
Mr. H. Cousens, M.R.A.S., Superintendent of the Archaeological Survey 
of Western India. On one Plate the obverse, and on the other the 
reverse, impressions have been so arranged as to exhibit their further 
and further departure from the original type. 
Periods of Currency. 
A. The Sassanian monarch Flruz reigned from A. D. 457-484, 
and the Huna imitations followed the type of the coins of the latter 
part of this reign, say from A.D. 470-484. 
B. The first Huna imitations were current in Western Rajputana 
during the reign of Toramana in the first quarter of the sixth century. 
Subsequently throughout Me war, Mar war, and all Rajputana the later 
Huna imitations had a large circulation. They were also probably 
current in Gujarat and even perhaps in Hathiawad side by side with 
the Valabhl coinage. This latter ceased to issue after the fall of Vala- 
bhi about the year A.D. 766, and thereafter the Huna imitations served 
as the currency for those provinces. 
0. The Gadhaiya coins, increasingly degenerate imitations of the 
Huna imitations, were probably issued during the Chavada (A.D. 746- 
942), the Chalukya (A.D. 942-1243), and Vaghela (A.D. 1244-1297) 
dynasties of Gujarat, and continued to be the accepted coin of the realm 
till ‘ Ala-ul-din’s conquest of the province at the close of the 13th cen¬ 
tury. Thus the period of currency for these Gadhaiya coins covers more 
than five hundred years—a long period, but not too long if regard be 
had to the extreme degeneration, both in design and workmanship, 
exhibited by these coins. 
Name. 
The name Gadhaiya or, as sometimes pronounced, Gadhiya, is said 
