Æ Unit - Ancient Malwa Post-Mauryan

Bhadravati's autonomous copper issues emerged in the political vacuum following Mauryan administrative retreat from the western Deccan fringe and Malwa, when local urban centers briefly asserted their own monetary authority before absorption into successive regional powers. These small units circulated in a window that was, by any measure, extremely short — the consolidation of the Satavahana sphere and the pressures of the Shungas to the north left little room for independent civic coinage in this region beyond the early second century BC.