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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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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central six-spoked wheel with a prominent central boss, occupying the majority of the flan. A crescent symbol appears above the wheel, with a triple-arched hill symbol positioned beneath it. The design is rendered in low relief on the roughly square, hammered copper flan, consistent with the punch-marked coinage tradition of the Punjab region. |
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| Reverse description | A swastika symbol in the center of the field, flanked on either side by nandipada (taurine) symbols. A Kharosthi legend appears in two lines below the central devices, the inscription partially legible across the roughly square flan. The design elements are deeply punched and arranged symmetrically, characteristic of the civic coinage of Taxila during the late Mauryan and post-Mauryan periods. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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