Catalog
1 Unit - Vijayamitra
| Issuer | Ujjain region |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Hellenized male bust facing right, rendered in a style strongly influenced by Indo-Greek coinage conventions, with wavy hair swept back from the forehead. The effigy displays a broad, naturalistic face with prominent nose and chin, characteristic of the local adaptation of Hellenistic portraiture prevalent in the Ujjain region during the 2nd–1st century BC. A Brahmi legend identifying the issuer appears in incuse cut lettering in the field surrounding the portrait. |
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| Obverse script | Brahmi |
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| Reverse description | Central device comprising a three-arched hill symbol (trikuta), a prominent auspicious emblem of the Ujjain coinage tradition, with a svastika motif placed within each of the three orbs or roundels surmounting the arches. The symbol is rendered in low relief on an otherwise plain field, typical of the punch-marked and early cast coinage of the Malwa region. The composition is bold and schematic, reflecting the symbolic rather than naturalistic artistic conventions of local Indian coinage of this period. |
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