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APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI.
THE MOST ANCIENT COINS OF INDIA.
Mr. Rapson, of the British Museum, has been kind enough to prepare the plates for Figs. 24 and 25, and to draw up the following key, giving explanations of each of the coins.
Fig. 24. 1. Æ; Taxila : Single-clie Coin.
In incuse, 1., pile of balls; r., chaitin : beneath, wavy line
and uncertain designs (? vine-branches). 2. R; Punch-marked Coin, showing on both sides various counter
marked symbols. 3. £; Taxila : Double-die Coin.
Obv. Elephant to r.; above, chaitja. Rev.sin incuse, Janeless Lion to l.; above, svastika; in
front, chaitya. 4. £; Vațasvaka.
Chaitya : 1., Vațasvaka in Brāhmi characters ; 1., standing
figures worshipping ; beneath, pile of balls. 5. E; Kāda: Cast Coin.
Obr. and Red. similar : Kudasa in Brāhmi characters;
above, Snake. 6. Æ; Mathurā.
Upātikyā in Brāhmi characters ; above, st'astika. 7. L; Ujjen.
Obv. Humped Bull to r.; above, Ujjain ' symbol.
Rev. Cjenil ya) in Brāhmi characters ; above, a Hand. 21
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