Hunnic Obol - Sind Sind and Gujarat

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背面描述	Highly stylized representation of a humped bull (zebu) facing right, rendered in an extremely abstract and schematized manner consistent with the late Hunnic coinage of Sind. The animal's body is suggested by a cluster of raised globules arranged in a compact oval formation at the center of the flan, surrounded by radiating linear elements representing the outline of the bull's body and legs. The design has been reduced through successive generations of die-copying to a near-geometric pattern, retaining only vestigial references to the naturalistic bull type from which it descended.
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背面铭文	SRI RANA VIGRAHA
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附加信息	The window between 712 and 717 places this issue squarely within the upheaval of the Umayyad conquest of Sind under Muhammad bin Qasim, when local coinage traditions were disrupted and surviving indigenous issues became increasingly scarce. These small silver obols descend from the degraded Hunnic coinage that had circulated through the northwestern subcontinent for generations, the designs worn down through successive copying until the original Sasanian-derived types became nearly unrecognizable. Few issues from this precise transitional moment survive in any quantity.

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