Lot 195

Ancient, Malwa Region, (c. 2nd-1st Century BC), Copper Unit, 0.82 gms, 12.39 mm, Obverse: Standing deity holding staff and Kamandala, Triangle standard at left, Taurine and Swastika symbols seen, Reverse: Six arm symbol (Sadarachakra), The six arm symbol on the reverse makes this coin close to the Mauryan period and hence one of the earliest die-struck coins of the Indian sub-continent, very fine, rare.