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Karshapana Andhrabhrityas Hiranyaka
| Issuer | Andhra Kingdom |
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| Year | 100-200 |
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| Technique | Cast |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is essentially plain, exhibiting no intentional design, legend, or decorative element. The flat flan surface bears only natural corrosion and irregular casting marks inherent to lead coinage of the period, consistent with the unworked reverse commonly found on Andhrabhrityas lead karshapanas. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Andhrabhrityas — sometimes rendered as the "servants of the Andhras" — were a subordinate dynasty operating in the shadow of the Satavahana kingdom, issuing lead coinage that circulated in the Deccan during a period when the Satavahanas themselves were fragmenting under pressure from the Western Kshatrapas. Lead was not a fallback material in this region; it was a deliberate regional choice, with the Deccan's abundant galena deposits making it an economically rational medium for low-denomination exchange well before and throughout the early centuries CE.