Catalog
1 Pagoda - Hari Hara II
| Issuer | Empire of Vijayanagara (Indian Hindu Dynasties) |
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| Year | 1377-1404 |
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| Weight | 3.41 g |
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| Obverse description | Stylised figural composition in low relief depicting the divine couple Vishnu and Lakshmi seated facing, rendered in the characteristic bold, schematic idiom of Vijayanagara hammered coinage. Vishnu is shown holding the chakra (discus) and the shankha (conch shell), his principal iconographic attributes symbolising cosmic order and primordial sound respectively. The figures are set within a boldly incuse rectangular panel framed by raised linear borders, with subsidiary decorative elements occupying the surrounding field. The design is executed in the angular, abstracted style typical of 14th-century Sangama dynasty pagodas, with the irregular flan reflecting hand-hammered production. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse bears a bold Kannada or Telugu inscription arranged within a rectangular compartmented field divided by raised horizontal and vertical lines, creating a grid-like framework characteristic of Vijayanagara pagodas of this period. The lettering, rendered in an archaic southern Brahmi-derived script, occupies the principal registers of the divided field, with additional decorative or epigraphic elements visible in the margins. The hammered flan displays the typical irregular outline and surface texture associated with hand-struck gold coinage of the Sangama dynasty. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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