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Gadhaiya Paisa - Distinctive Nose type Paramaras of Malwa
| Issuer | Paramaras of Malwa |
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| Year | 1200-1300 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Brahmi |
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| Reverse description | Highly stylised fire altar depicted in cruciform (cross-shaped) plan, a degenerated rendition of the Sasanian altar-with-attendants prototype. The central cross form is encircled by a border of lines, which is in turn surrounded by a ring of pellets (dots), replacing the zoomorphic or human attendant figures of the original Sasanian design. The overall composition retains the hierarchical structure of the prototype while reducing figural elements to purely geometric and ornamental forms. |
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The Gadhaiya Paisa coinage descends from a long degeneration of the Gurjara-Pratihara silver drammas, themselves imitations of Sasanian drachms introduced centuries earlier. By the time the Paramaras of Malwa were striking billon issues in the thirteenth century, the original prototype had been abstracted beyond recognition through successive generations of die-cutters copying copies. The "Distinctive Nose type" represents a regional die variation catalogued by Maheshwari, distinguishable from the broader Gadhaiya family by a specific treatment of the fire-altar attendant's facial profile.
Malwa came under sustained Sultanate pressure following Qutb ud-Din Aibak's campaigns, and Paramara political authority collapsed entirely by the mid-thirteenth century. Much of this coinage circulated in that shrinking window of autonomous rule.