Catalog
1 Kasu - Ganesha/Lakshmi type
| Issuer | Kongu Chera dynasty (Indian Hindu Dynasties) |
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| Year | 1400 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Seated figure of Ganesha depicted frontally in the field, rendered in low relief in the characteristic South Indian regional style. The elephant-headed deity is shown in a formal seated posture with distinguishing iconographic attributes visible despite the crude hammered execution. The surrounding field is plain, with the irregular flan edges typical of hammered copper coinage of the Kongu Chera period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Kongu Cheras were a regional power controlling territory around the Coimbatore region of Tamil Nadu, distinct from the ancient Chera kings of the Sangam period despite sharing the dynastic name. Their copper kasu coinage circulated in local markets and temple economies during the late medieval period, when small-denomination copper issues of this kind were largely ignored by chroniclers — which is precisely why the attributions remain contested among scholars today. M809.12 is a reference classification rather than a firmly excavated provenance.