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Ancient India: Yaudheyas or Kunindas, copper coin, in name of 'Chitreshwara', PAIC 1646, 16.79g.

Currency:INR Category:Coins & Paper Money / Indian Coins - Ancient Start Price:NA Estimated At:30,000.00 - 40,000.00 INR
Ancient India: Yaudheyas or Kunindas, copper coin, in name of 'Chitreshwara', PAIC 1646, 16.79g.
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Post-Mauryan tribal republics - Yaudheyas or Kunindas, copper coin struck in the name of 'Chitreshwara' as tutelary deity of the clan (c.50BC-50AD), PAIC 1646, 16.79g. Obv: Shiva standing frontally holding trident-battle axe in one hand and the other hand on his hip; Brahmi legend Bhagavato…. to right and …tmanah to left. Rev: Deer facing left, altar between its legs, a 'key'-like symbol, Shrivatsa and a vase above, six-arched hill topped by a sun and a triangle-headed standard to left, traces of tree-in-railing to right and a wavy line below.

Extremely fine, Extremely rare.

The attribution of this type of heavy coins, probably struck on the same standard as a Kushana copper full unit, is contested - A M Shastri regards it to be a Kuninda issue but Devdendra Handa suggests a Yaudheya attribution. Pieper in his AIC catalogue follows Handa and attributes them to the Yaudheyas. The frontal depiction of Shiva is unique in numismatic art.