Excerpt from The Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. 6: And Journal of the Numismatic Society

When Mr. Prinsep published his readings of the legends of the Surashtra series of Coins, in his Journal for May 1837, he mentioned with some exultation, that our small band of Indian collectors had been able to develop or confirm, three unequivocal lines of history, by the unlying evidence of coins. I am now able to add a fourth series, larger in number, and extending over a much longer period than any of those yet made known, embracing, in fact, the coinage of an independent state for fifteen centuries.

In 1838, I had already recognised in Mr. Prinsep's third series of imitations of the Indo-Scythian coins, published in his Journal (vol. v., pl. 39), the names of some of the Kashmirian princes. When I visited Kashmir in September 1839, I made a collection of upwards of one thousand copper coins of the same class, from which I have selected many of the specimens sketched in the accompanying plates. Most of these coins were found at Bij-Bihára, one of the oldest towns in Kashmir.

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