\ \ of the Catalogue . ; Museum Coins in the Indian Calcutta the Cabinet of the Including Asiatic Society of Bengal Volume I Part II : Ancient Coins of Indian Types By Vincent A. Smith M.A., F.R.N.S., M.R.A.S., I.C.S. Retd. Published for the Trustees of the Indian Museum Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1906 HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH NEW YORK AND TORONTO 1 ADVERTISEMENT A SMALL separate impression of Part II is issued for the convenience of collectors and students specially interested in the classes of coins treated in this Part, who may not care to purchase the complete volume. TheGeneralIntroduction,GeneralIndex, andcompleteTables ofWeights and Measures appear in that volume only. Here it may be noted that a millimetre is almost exactly T^h of an inch, or, in other words, one inch isverylittlemore than 25 millimetres ; and that ten English grains are equivalent to -648, almost two-thirds of a gramme. Weights are given in English grains, and measurements in decimals of an inch. CONTENTS PART ANCIENT COINS OF INDIAN TYPES II. PAGE .131 SECTION V. PUNCH-MARKED COINS, INTRODUCTION . . . CATALOGUE 136 VI. LOCAL COINS OF NORTCHATEARLNOGINUDEI,A,AIJNOTDRHOYDAUCTIO.N .. ...115414283 AVANTI . . KOSAM 155 TAXILA ,. . ..156 . . VII. TRIBAL COINS, ICNATTBAOLDOUGCUTEI,ONAA_URDJUUNMABYAARNAA . . ..116616660 KUNINDA . . . .167 MALAYA . . . .170 . . . NAGA OF NARWAR 178 RAJANYA . ..179 YAUDHEYA . . . .180 . . . VIII. KINGS OF N. PANCHALA (AHICHHATRA) AND KOSALA, .184 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . CATALOGUE, THE SO-CALLED <MITRA' DYNASTY PAN- CHALA AND KOSALA 186 . . . . ACHYUTA, KING OF AHICHHATRA 188 . . IX. THE RAJAS AND SATRAPS OF MATHURA AND VIRASENA, INTRODUCTION ; .190 CATALOGUE, RAJA.S OF. MAT.HURA. . . . .192 SATRAPS OF MATHURA . . . .195 . . . VIRASENA 197 X. UNASSIGNED MISCELLANEOUS COINS OF NORTHERN INDIA, .198 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . CATALOGUE, RECTANGULAR CAST COINS . . 199 ANONYMOUS CIRCULAR CAST COINS 202 APPARENTLY DIE-STRUCK COINS, NOT INSCRIBED 203 . . . INSCRIBEDCIRCULARCOINS,VARIOUS 205 .... XI. THE ANDHRA DYNASTY, INTRODUCTION . . . . 208 ..CAT.ALOGUE 209 INDEX OF RULERS, &c., PART II . 214 LIST OF PLATES XIX. PUNCH-MARKED COINS, SILVER AND COPPER: LOCAL COINS, AJODHYA AND AVANTI. XX. LOCAL COINS, AVANTI, KOSAM, TAXILA: TEIBAL COINS, ARJUNAYANA, KUNINDA, MlLAVA. XXI. TRIBAL COINS, MILAVA, NAGA, RXJANYA, YAUDHEYA. XXIL COINS OF N. PANCHALA AND MATHURA: MISCELLANEOUS ANCIENT, RECTANGULAR CAST. XXIII. MISCELLANEOUS ANCIENT, COPPER: ANDHRA COINS, COPPER (?POTIN) AND LEAD. ABBREVIATIONS MJEi . copper, including bronze. . silver. A. S. B. . Asiatic Society ofBengal. Af . gold. B. M. . . British Museum. Br. . . . Brahml script. C. A. 1. . . Cunningham, Coins ofAncient India. C, M. 1. . . ditto, Coins ofMediaeval India. C. S. I. . Elliot, Coins ofSouthern India. diad. . . wearing diadem. Ep. Ind. . . Epigraphia Indica. I. C. . . . Rapson, Indian Coins. I. M.. . . Indian Museum, Calcutta. Ind. Ant. . . Indian Antiquary, Bombay. /. A. S. B. . Journal ofthe Asiatic Society of Bengal. J. R. A. S. . . Royal Asiatic Society. Kh. ... KharoshthI . . . script. 1. left, ofreader. L lead. mon. . . . monogram or similar mark. obv. . . . obverse. Proc. A. S. H. . Proceedings ofthe Asiatic Society of Bengal. r. right, ofreader. R.-C. . . . from cabinet ofCol. Rivett-Carnac, C.I.E. Rep. or Reports . Reports ofthe Archaeological Survey ofIndia (old series). rev. . . . reverse. sq. . . square. Z. D. M. G. . Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenldndischen Gesellschaft. PART II ANCIENT COINS OF INDIAN TYPES