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1 Unit
| Issuer | Beikthano Kingdom |
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| Year | 100-600 |
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| Weight | 10 g |
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| Obverse lettering | Rising sun with six rays below and six others above a horizontal line; all in a circle of 27 points. |
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| Mintage | ND (100-600) |
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Beikthano, located in the Irrawaddy valley of present-day Myanmar, is one of the earliest identified Pyu city-states, with occupation confirmed through excavation by the Myanmar Department of Archaeology. Tin-based coinage from this region remains poorly documented in Western numismatic literature, and attribution of individual pieces to specific reigns or even centuries within the Pyu period is largely impossible given current scholarship.
What the archaeology does confirm: Beikthano was abandoned sometime around the 7th century, likely under pressure from the Pyu city of Sri Ksetra.