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Æ Unit - Uncertain Wheel and Elephant
| Issuer | Uncertain Indian mint (India (ancient)) |
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| Year | 550-600 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Elephant advancing right with trunk raised, rendered in low relief in a schematic yet expressive style characteristic of late ancient Indian copper coinage. The animal's body is compact and naturalistically suggested, with visible legs and a broad domed head. The design is contained within a denticled border encircling the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (550-600) |
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The elephant and wheel motif appears across multiple regional issues of the early medieval Deccan and its peripheries, making precise attribution genuinely difficult — scholars have proposed everything from minor feudatory mints to merchant guild issues for coins of this class. At roughly 0.78g this piece falls well below the standard ratti-based weight systems that governed most contemporary Indian copper coinage, suggesting either local deviation or significant post-minting wear before it left circulation.