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1/8 Satamana - Gandhara Janapada
| Issuer | Gandhara Kingdom |
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| Year | 600 BC - 350 BC |
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| Value | 1/8 Satamana (⅜) |
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| Obverse description | Obverse displays a series of punch-marked impressions arranged across the flat silver flan, featuring a central six-petaled floral motif surrounded by intersecting curved and linear punch marks. The design consists of multiple overlapping crescent and cross-like symbols applied individually by punch, characteristic of the Gandhara Janapada coinage tradition. The surface shows the typical irregular texture of hand-struck punch-marked coinage, with each symbol impressed separately into the silver. No legend or inscription is present, the decoration being entirely symbolic in nature. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is essentially blank, presenting a plain, slightly convex silver surface with no deliberate design elements. Faint incidental marks and surface irregularities are visible, consistent with the manufacturing technique of early Indian punch-marked coinage where the reverse was left uninscribed. The flan exhibits natural flow lines and minor imperfections typical of hand-prepared silver blanks of the Gandhara period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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