History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c3.3

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“Hitherto only one coin of this type, noticed by Messrs. Walsh and Banerji, has been known. The Balasore hoard includes sixty-three coins with the legend *tanka*. In this group Pandit B. B. Bidyabinod distinguishes four different types and among the other coins of the hoard no less than twenty-eight types in accordance with the difference in the position of the sun and the crescent and the attitude of the standing figure. In this connection I may refer to another hoard of copper coins of the ‘Puri Kushan’ type found in association of a large number of copper coins of Kanishka and Huvishka. This hoard was found in 1923 in an earthen pot buried in a field at Bhanjakia in the Panchpir Subdivision of the Mayurbhanj State. The Mayurbhanj hoard includes two coins with the legend *tanka*. As coins of so-called ‘Puri Kushan’ type have been found not only in the Puri District, but also in the Balasore District, the Mayurbhanj State, in Orissa, in the adjacent Ganjam District in the Madras Presidency and in the Singhbhoom District in Chota Nagpur it, would now appear reasonable to drop the name ‘Puri Kushan’ and designate this class of coins as ‘Oriya Kushan.’ ”²