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1 Karshapana
| Issuer | Magadha Kingdom (Janapadas (pre-Mauryan)) |
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| Year | 592 BC - 370 BC |
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| Weight | 3.39 g |
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| Obverse description | Irregular, broadly round silver flan bearing multiple punch-marked symbols applied by individual punches across the surface. Visible devices include a sun or wheel symbol with radiating spokes in the lower left field, a tree or plant motif with branching fronds in the upper left, and several smaller geometric and symbolic punches — including what appear to be animal or abstract glyptic marks — distributed across the right and upper fields. The punches are characteristic of early Janapada coinage from the Magadha region, applied in the archaic punch-marked tradition with no formal border or legend. |
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| Reverse description | Plain, uniface reverse with no devices, symbols, or inscriptions. The surface of the silver flan is flat and unworked, retaining the natural texture of the hammered metal, consistent with the punch-marked coinage tradition in which only the obverse received symbolic punches. |
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| Mintage | ND (592 BC - 370 BC) |
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