TREASURE TROVE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1907, Page 15

TREASURE TROVE.

A valuable hoard of ancient coins was' recently discovered in the hamlet of Jogaltembhi in the Sinnar Talqua of Nasik, close to the junction of the rivers Godavery and Darna. Outside the village there stands a grassy mound, and it was here that some children, while playing, accidentally unearthed the money. The rumour of the find drew the village elders to the spot, who decided to dig deeper. In doing so they I disclosed an earthenware pot, " firmly embedded in the hill-side and filled with silver coins, many of which tho villiagers proceeded to melt down. But the news soon reached the ears of tho, authorities and the remnant of the trea- , sure, about ten thusand pieces, was ; safely deposited in the local Treasury, ', under the Treasure Trove Act. All > the coins aro silver, of nearly the same size and type, bearing on the obverse the head of the King who struck them, and round it a legend in Greek characters, which are said to be a transli•teration of a bilingual legend on the * reverse of tho coin. The reverse bears an arrow and a thunderbolt, surrounded by an"*lnscription in Brahmi and Khrosthi, two of the^ oldest scripts in India, giving the name of 'tho,, King as Kshairapa Nahapana. These coins, there-

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