Lot 119
Ancient Malwa Region Copper Unit
Auction # 23 Lucknow (Online)
- Estimated Price (INR)
- 1500 - 2000
- Price Realised -
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Auction Completed!
- Catalog Reference #
- #
- Metal Composition
- Copper
- Lot Grade/Condition
- very fine
- Diameter
- 12.39 mm
- Weight
- 0.82 gms
- Denomination
- Unit
- Calendar/Year
- c. 2nd-1st Century BC
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.