Catalog
Karshapana - Ujjain Anonymous
| Issuer | Ujjain region |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 100 BC) |
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Ujjain was one of the most commercially active mints of the punch-marked period, sitting at the intersection of the northern trade routes and the Deccan corridor. Anonymous copper issues from this region circulated alongside silver karshapanas of imperial and regional authority, functioning as small-change fractions in a monetary system where silver dominated accounting but copper handled daily transaction.
Attribution to Ujjain for anonymous pieces of this type rests primarily on symbol groupings cross-referenced against excavation findspots, particularly from Ujjain itself and Vidisha.