The Vidarbha Kingdom occupied the eastern Deccan region corresponding roughly to modern Maharashtra's Nagpur and Amravati districts — a zone that sat at the crossroads of northern and peninsular trade networks. Post-Mauryan fragmentation after Ashoka's death in 232 BC created a proliferation of regional copper coinage as former imperial territories asserted local authority through their own monetary issues. Cast rather than struck, this unit reflects a manufacturing tradition that persisted in the Deccan well after the northwestern regions had adopted die-struck methods.
Pieper's documentation of this type remains the primary reference, the catalog being compiled largely from private collection material rather than excavation contexts.
The Vidarbha Kingdom occupied the eastern Deccan region corresponding roughly to modern Maharashtra's Nagpur and Amravati districts — a zone that sat at the crossroads of northern and peninsular trade networks. Post-Mauryan fragmentation after Ashoka's death in 232 BC created a proliferation of regional copper coinage as former imperial territories asserted local authority through their own monetary issues. Cast rather than struck, this unit reflects a manufacturing tradition that persisted in the Deccan well after the northwestern regions had adopted die-struck methods.
Pieper's documentation of this type remains the primary reference, the catalog being compiled largely from private collection material rather than excavation contexts.