The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c19.37

c19.37

I had however a suspicion that this observation might be due to a mistake, and so I wrote to my friend Mr. A. D. H. Bivar of the Ashmolean Museum to examine the coin and let me know whether there was really a symbol on its obverse. Mr. Bivar replied that there was no symbol on the obverse and that some letters of the circular legend were mistaken for a symbol. I then requested Mr. Bivar to supply me a photograph of the coin for publication in this work and he kindly obliged me by complying with my request. I am now publishing the coin, so that the readers may judge for themselves as to whether the coin has any symbol in the upper left hand corner on the obverse.