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| 背面描述 | The reverse presents a plain, flat surface with no deliberate design, typical of early die-struck copper units from the Eran city series. The flan surface shows natural irregularities and patination consistent with burial and age, with a mottled green and brown copper patina across the field. No inscriptions, symbols, or secondary punch marks are discernible on this face. |
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| 铸造量 | ND (300 BC - 200 BC) |
| 附加信息 |
Eran, located in the Sagar district of modern Madhya Pradesh, was among the earliest Indian cities to strike its own coinage, and these copper units belong to a period when punch-marked silver dominated long-distance trade while local civic authorities issued cast or die-struck base metal for smaller transactions. The precise civic authority behind Eran's issues remains debated — whether a merchant guild, a local chieftain, or a nascent municipal body — and no contemporary textual source names the issuing institution directly.