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Jital - 'Bronze' - Vakka Deva - Shahis of Ohind - 750-1000 AD
| Issuer | Shahis of Ohind |
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| Year | 800-1000 |
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| Reference(s) | Tye#9.1 |
| Obverse description | Elephant walking to left depicted in crude but vigorous style, occupying the lower portion of the field. Above the elephant, a Brahmi or Sharada legend reading 'Sri Vakka Deva' is arranged in the upper field. The coin is struck on an irregular flan with a beaded border partially visible around the circumference. The overall style is characteristic of the provincial hammered coinage of the Hindu Shahi rulers of the Ohind region. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sri Vakka Deva |
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The Shahis of Ohind — sometimes called the Hindu Shahis — controlled the Kabul Valley and the region around Und (Ohind, on the Indus) during a period of sustained pressure from the expanding Saffarid and later Ghaznavid powers to the west. These copper jitals circulated in a frontier economy where overland trade between the subcontinent and Central Asia made small-denomination coinage genuinely necessary. The designation "Bronze" in the type name is a collector convention; the alloy is essentially copper with variable trace content depending on the striking batch.
Tye 9.1 places this within the Vakka Deva attribution, though the reading remains debated among specialists given the formulaic nature of the die cutting across Shahi subsidiary issues.