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Hunnic Obol - HaCha
| Issuer | Sindh Kingdom (Indian states) |
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| Year | 500-600 |
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| Value | 1 Damma |
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| Obverse description | Crude hammered fabric with three conjoined pellets arranged horizontally in the upper field, below which appears a single isolated pellet. Hunnic symbolic devices occupy the lower right and bottom portions of the flan. The Brahmi inscription 'HA CHA' is positioned within the field in association with the pellet arrangement. The overall design is characteristic of the debased coinage tradition of the Hunnic-influenced rulers of Sindh, struck on an irregular flan with flat, worn relief. |
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| Obverse lettering | HA CHA |
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The so-called "HaCha" obols are among the least-documented issues in the broader Hunnic imitative coinage tradition of the northwestern subcontinent, produced by local authorities in Sindh as Kidarite and Hephthalite political structures fragmented across the region during the fifth and sixth centuries. Attribution remains genuinely contested — "Sindh Kingdom" is more a geographic assignation than a confirmed political entity, and the HaCha designation derives from legend readings that specialists have debated for decades without resolution.