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| Issuer | Pushkalavati, City of |
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| Year | 201 BC - 101 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Elephant walking to right in profile, rendered in bold relief with naturalistic detail; a small symbol, possibly a standard or tethering post, is depicted above the animal's back. The figure occupies the full width of the irregular rectangular flan, with no surrounding legend or border. |
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| Reverse script | Kharosthi |
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Pushkalavati — the "City of Lotuses," modern Charsadda in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — sat at the confluence of the Swat and Kabul rivers and served as the Achaemenid administrative capital of Gandhara before Alexander's forces besieged it for roughly a month in 327 BC. By the second century BC, the city operated under the loose authority of the Indo-Greek kingdom, issuing its own civic bronze alongside royal coinage. The MIG 4401/03 series belongs to that semi-autonomous municipal tradition, a relatively rare phenomenon on the northwest frontier.