Catalog
1 Unit - Gunatunga Rashtrakutas
| Issuer | Western Ganga Dynasty (Indian states) |
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| Year | 1000-1327 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Stylized royal bust facing right, rendered in a schematic South Indian hammered tradition characteristic of early medieval Deccan coinage. The effigy displays a crowned or diademed head with simplified facial features, the design exhibiting the conventional degradation of portraiture typical of late Ganga-period silver issues. Surrounding the bust are faint traces of a border or partial legend in the field. The die work is crude but purposeful, consistent with small-denomination hammered coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse script | Brahmi |
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The Western Gangas ruled the Gangavadi region of what is now southern Karnataka, and by the later centuries of their existence were increasingly subordinate to the Rashtrakutas and then the Cholas. Small silver punch-marked and die-struck fractions from this period are poorly documented in the literature — attributions to specific rulers remain contested among South Indian numismatists, and "Gunatunga" appears in dynastic records without a firmly established regnal range.
At 0.5 g and 6 mm, this is a fractional unit, likely circulating in local agrarian markets rather than long-distance trade.