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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I.—History Literature &c. 1901

1901

and Eran but the publication of the “Coins of Ancient India” has rendered it expedient and practicable to distinguish between the symbols of the earlier and later coinages although many of the earlier symbols have survived and rappear on the coins of more local and modern issues. [...] IX) figiiires and describes four types of the Obverses of the gold coins of Hu.vishka A. B. C. D. My collection contains specmens of B and 0„ only but it also contains two specimens of the type described by Thomas with horns on the helmet of the King which is unnoticed in the other *works quoted though I make little doubt the type exists in both collections. [...] 8 only is a single chamber of the Chaitya ' discernible under the dog's hind legs whereas in my own collection the association of the dog and Stupa is seen in no less than nine coins; and the only explaation that occurs to me is that -the artist not understanding the sirinificance of the little hemispherical marks under the dog's legs omitted them in some instances at least as unintell [...] In the list of symbols now given which occur on the silver Karshapanas (round or square) the first column contains the number of the symbol in the present list; the second column the number and figure of the symbol in my previous paper anal the following are the abbreviations used :— N.0.= Thomas' Essay on Ancient Indian Weights in the NtiMiinata Orientalia 1874. [...] Beneath is a pair of Taurines' with opposed 'cusps.' Above is a symbol which I regard as the Trrattle' formed by three crescents in a line the median one being a little raised above the level of the other two.
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Pages
51
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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A Revision of the Symbols on the 'Karshapana' Coinage Described in Vol. LIX J.A.S.B. 1890 Part I No. 3 and Descriptions of Many Additional Symbols.—by W. Theobald M.N.S.L.
38-63 unknown view
On the Symbols and Devices Met with on Copper Coins of Ancient India Both Those Cast in Moulds and Those Struck with Dies from Taxila Ujain Eran Benares and Other Contemporary Mints.—by W. Theobald M.N.S. London
64-88 unknown view

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