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Æ Half Unit - Wheel/pacaladamma type
| Issuer | City of Taxila (Punjab region) |
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| Year | 185 BC - 168 BC |
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| Value | 1/4 Karshapana |
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| Reverse script | Kharosthi |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Taxila sat at the convergence of three major trade routes — the road west toward Bactria, the route south to the Gangetic plain, and the northwestern passes into Central Asia — and its civic coinage reflects a city accustomed to conducting business on its own terms. The wheel and pacaladamma symbols belong to a local iconographic vocabulary that persisted stubbornly through successive Mauryan, post-Mauryan, and eventually Indo-Greek overlordships. The "var" designations against both Mitchiner and HGC suggest this piece carries a die combination not fully catalogued in either reference.