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Hunnic Obol - Sind and Punjab
| Issuer | Sindh Kingdom (Indian states) |
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| Year | 700-800 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Crude hammered field bearing a schematic arrangement of pellets: a group of three pellets disposed above a single pellet in the central zone, forming the characteristic Hunnic symbolic motif. Cut or banker's marks appear in the upper field, while degenerate Hunnic symbols are placed to the lower right and beneath the outer pellets. A Brahmi legend reading 'HA CHA' is inscribed within the design, typical of the post-Hunnic coinage of Sind and Punjab. The overall execution is highly stylized and irregular, consistent with the provincial struck coinage of the 8th century. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse die is uniface, presenting a plain, uninscribed and undecorated flat surface. The flan shows the characteristic rough and irregular texture of hammered silver coinage of this period, with no intentional design elements struck. |
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These small silvers emerge from the political wreckage left by the Hephthalite and Kidarite Hunnic incursions into the northwestern subcontinent — successor issues struck by local powers who had absorbed both the administrative habits and the iconographic vocabulary of their former overlords. The Sind and Punjab regions changed hands repeatedly across the 8th century, and coin production fragmented accordingly into a tangle of local mints operating with no central authority.
Attribution within this series remains genuinely contested among specialists. Weight standards drifted well below the theoretical obol norm across the period, making individual specimens difficult to pin to a specific issuing power without hoard provenance.