Lot 398
IK Travancore Viraraya Type Gold Fanam
Auction # 13 Lucknow (Online)
- Estimated Price (INR)
- 1200 - 1500
- Price Realised -
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Auction Completed!
- Catalog Reference #
- #
- Metal Composition
- Gold
- Lot Grade/Condition
- very fine
- Diameter
- 7.19 mm
- Weight
- 0.37 gms
- Denomination
- Fanam
- Calendar/Year
- 16th-18th Century AD
Independent Kingdoms, Travancore (16th-18th Century AD), Viraraya Type, Gold Fanam, 0.37 gms, 7.19 mm, Obverse: Stylized Lion to right, Reverse: Stylized boar to right, Derived from the Hoysala typology of Lion and Boar, the Viraraya fanams were circulating all across south India in the late medieval period, Because of its popularity, it was heavily copied by many dynasties, very fine, scarce.