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Avgust, 1903.
SOME DOUBTFUL OOINS OF SOUTHERN INDIA.
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No. 37. Copper -
A very puzzling coin. On the obv, is a standing tigare, which may be Vishņu in his Narasimha aratdr, with some other object to the left. From another point of view the design looks something like a figure of a Rajah seated with his left arm crooked, surrounded by a lozenge-shaped line, and having objects on each side of his head. The rap, has s dotted line in a square shape with a square prolongation on one side, and some lettering inside. NO. 28. Copper - Obv. - A very crude figure of (!) Viska standing under a canopy. His right hand holds an
object- soeptre, or discus on a staff. Rep. - A chink, surrounded by lined circle. On left three dots; on right the letter ri in
Kanarese (?). No. 29. Copper -
Obr. A well-designed little figure of Ganesa on his rat vdhana, with a staff in his right hand. Rev. - A very poor attempt at a Siva lingam on an altar. A horizontal line runs across between
the altar and the lingam. No. 80. Copper -
Obd. - Garuda, passant, to left.
Rev. - A worn-out inscription, apparently in Nagari characters. No. 31. Copper -
A complete pazzle. On one side what looks like a scorpion, surrounded by a ring of dots of rather unusual type - the dots being close together so as to make a continuous rope-like circle. They might even be a string of cowrie-shells. On the other side, within a similar circle, is some object or group of objects to which I can give no name. No. 32. Copper -
[1 cannot say if this is a coin at all.] 05. - A strongly marked egual-armed cross, each end forming a trefoil.
Rev. - Unintelligible. No. 33. Copper -
Obv. - An eight-pointed star. Rev. - Tamil lettering; probably "kumpigi" = "Company." This is, I think, a variety
of the coin noted by Dr. Haltasch as one struck by the British East India Company, - No. 25 of his List in Ind. Ant, XXL326, PI. II., No. 85. His
coin has dots between the star-points; mine has none. No. 34. Copper -
Ob. - A six-pointed star, in a lined circle.
Rev. - (?) No. 36. Copper Obv. - A. god, standing on something hinted at rather than represented; probably
canopy was over his head. Rev. "Venkutappa," in a lined circle. This is probably coin of one of the Venkatas of
Vijayanagara, but I do not think that it has been figured in previous Lists. No. 38. Copper -
Obv. - ()
Rev. - An inscription in Tamil () characters. No. 37. Copper -
Obv.- () Rev. - A Nagart inscription.
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