the squares or disks of metal were heated before the coinage marks on the obverse were punched on, while the shroffs or moneyers would punch their marks on to the cold metal of the coin. In some cases the reverse marks are hardly more than the outline of the design and have the appearance of having been partly obliterated by having been partly pressed or hammered out from the other side. An example of this is the mark Fig. 72 on the reverse of coin No. 57. A possible explanation of this may be that in some cases people brought their silver to the minting authorities to have the government and other official marks minted on them, ready prepared in the form of the bars in which they would be cut in lengths to the. authorized weight, and be stamped, and, before doing so, placed their own private marks on one side of the bars to ensure getting their own silver back again in coins after paying the Rupiya or seignorage for minting. OBVERSE. The Numbers on the Plate are the Numbers of the Coins in the List. 41 46 Photo.-engraved & printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta, 1919. |