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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1894

1895

Catalogues of the coins in the Lahore Museum the Indian Museum and the Museum of the Asiatic Society are now in different stages of progress. [...] Sir Alexander Cunningham were lost beneath the waters of the Bay of Begal were some bags of coins which the owner obligingly presented to me in the hope that some of the coins might be so cleaned from the crust which had overspread them daring their submergence in the sea as still to be of value: and this proved to be the case with many specimens though a large number were too corroded by [...] Whilst on the subject of the identification of animals represented on old coins (a subject claiming for its elucidation the knowledge of the sportsman and naturalist rather than the antiquarian and numimatist) I would make what I believe to be a correction of an opinion expressed in my paper On the Symbols on the Coins of Kuninda ' (ante Vol. [...] This aide arm is deflected either to the right or left and the only suggestion I can offer as to its meaning is that the symbol is intended to represent a rude wooden plough the short basal arm being the 4 coulter.' Ploughs of this character with only a few inches of iron to form the point of the share ' are still used in India and the simplest form perhaps of the instrument was a straight [...] On four coins a pair of taurines ' one inverted over the other occupies the place of the triskelis ' in front of the principal symbol on the right of the coin and on a fifth coin in addition to the triskelis ' a tn.
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Pages
54
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Coins Supplementary to Thomas’ Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of Dehli No. V. —By C. J. Rodgers Honorary Numismatist to the Government of India
63-72 Honorary Philological Scretary view
Notes on Early Local Silver Coinages in North-Western India and in the Konkan:—By W. Theobald Member of the Num. Soc. Lon. and Royal As. Soc
73-84 Honorary Philological Scretary view
Note on Major Francklin’s Manuscript Description of Gaur.—By H. Beveridge I.C.S. (Retd.)
85-93 Honorary Philological Scretary view
Three Documents Relating to the History of Ladakh: Tibetan Text Translation and Notes.—By the Late Dr. Karl Marx Muravian Missionary at Leh Ladakh
94-107 Honorary Philological Scretary view
Abstract of the Contents of one of the Āhōm Puthis —By E. A. Gait C. S.
108-111 Honorary Philological Scretary view
Backmatter
i-2 Honorary Philological Scretary view

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