These are crudely cast copper coins resembling those of Kushanas. They are so named by Doctor Hoernle owing to the fact that a large hoard of them was found in Puri district in 1895. In Odisha- they have been found in large number Mayurbhanj, Balasore and Ganjam districts. The largest heard ever discovered in India was collected from the Malkhana of Bhadrak weighing 78kg. No trace of a mint has so far been discovered, in large number but there can be hardly any doubt that there must have been mints for coinage. Puri Kushana coins are generally classified under two broad heads viz., the inscribed coins and the uninscribed coins. The uninscribed coins have two standing human figures on two sides. The symbol of a crescent is found on the reverse or on both the sides. Some coins are without the crescent sign. In the inscribed coin there is a standing human figure with a crescent on the obverse side. In the reverse side there are three pyramid like symbols with an inscription 'Tanka'. Different hoards are assigned to them. Prof. Rapson assigns the inscribed coins to the period between the reign of Kaniska and the end of the Kushan rule in India (roughly the first three centuries of the Christian era). According to V. A. Smith they might belong to the 4th or 5' century A.D. Prof. R. D. Banerjee places the inscribed coins to the period 6th/7th century A.D..