Lot 50
Ancient, Panchala, Rajnyah Vijayamitra, Copper "1/2 karshapana"
Auction # 8 Lucknow ( Floor & Realtime Online Auction )
- Estimated Price (INR)
- 1500 - 2000
- Price Realised -
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Auction Completed!
- Catalog Reference #
- published in JONS # 234, 2018
- Metal Composition
- Copper
- Lot Grade/Condition
- very fine
- Diameter
- 12.65 mm
- Weight
- 1.51 gms
- Denomination
- 1/2 karshapana
- Calendar/Year
- 220 AD
Ancient, Panchala, Rajnyah Vijayamitra (220 AD), Copper 1/2 karshapana, 1.51 gms, 12.65 mm, Conch shell placed horizontally on platform, flanked by standards; chakra (sacred wheel) above / Brahmi legend in two lines Rajnyah Vijayamitasa single Panchala symbol at top left; Unpublished in the standard references. Extremely rare and important. with his royal title Rajnyah and his complex iconography - indicates that Panchala coinage continued well into the Kushan era and there was no long interlude during Kushan rule in northern India, published in JONS # 234, 2018, very fine, extremely rare.