Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 60
Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications
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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
( APRIL, 1931
And lastly, to give some morc figures, I found by personal observation that the order of superiority as moosured by the nasal index is as follows 31 -
Leplorrhynian. Mesorrhynian. Platyrrhynian. Brahmana
.. 69.2 to 70.3 Kayastha
70.4 Sadgop
73.8 Dhoba
73.9 Pukuriya
74.8 Sonår Vene [Vanik] ..
75.2 Moci
758 Gwala
76.0 Gandha Vanik
76.1 Pod
76.2 Kaivarrta
763 Vaidya
77.7 'Teli
78.2 Casa
80.0 Dom
81.0 Kurmi
82.4 Bagdi
83.8
83.9 Bâuri Täti
84.6 Birhor
85.8 Lohár
87.1 Orion Bhuiya Santal
89.0 Munda
89.6 Mal-Pahåriya ..
91.8 (To be continued.)
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Malo
87.2
88.8
ON CERTAIN SPECIMENS OF FORMER CURRENCY IN BURMA.
BY THE LATE SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, Br. SOME thirty years ago I had the accompanying plate made of certain remarkable speci. mens of currency, which I had collected while in Burma and gave to the British Museum. But I never published it because I had dealt with the subject in artioles contributed to vol. XLII of this Journal. As, however, the specimens are unusual, I publish the plate now with some remarks thereon. They consist of
: (1) two specimens of what have been called usually Tenasserim Medals in works on numismatics : figs. 1 and 5.
(2) two Siamese tickals : figs. 2 and 3. (3) a Shan silver shell (chálón): fig. 4. (4) a Tenasserim cock coin or token : fig. 6.
I. Tenasserim Modals. The “Tenasserim Medals" are worth a special note. The oldest reference to those pieces of ourrency, for they were not "medals," that I know of, is in Tavernier's Travels,
38 B. Bonnerjoe, L'Ethnologie du Bengale, Appendix B, No. 6 (p. 184).
