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Ancient India: Post-Mauryan tribal republics, Yaudheyas or Kunindas - copper coin struck in the name

Currency:INR Category:Coins & Paper Money / Indian Coins - Ancient Start Price:NA Estimated At:5,000.00 - 7,000.00 INR
Ancient India: Post-Mauryan tribal republics, Yaudheyas or Kunindas - copper coin struck in the name
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Post-Mauryan tribal republics, Yaudheyas or Kunindas - copper coin struck in the name of 'Chitreshwara' as tutelary deity of the clan (c.50BC-50AD), PAIC 1643 var., 9.14g. Obv: Three-headed Shiva seated frontally on an Āsana, holding a staff, with traces of a kneeling figure at his feet. Rev: Deer facing right (mostly out of flan), with a Damaru symbol under its belly and a small human figure to the right.

Very fine, Rare.

The attribution of this type is contested - A M Shastri regards it to be a Kuninda issue but Devendra Handa suggests a Yaudheya attribution. Pieper in his catalogue follows Handa and attributes them to the Yaudheyas. Coins of this type are very rare and known from a single hoard, which appeared in the early 1980s.