Æ Unit - Uncertain Wheel and Elephant

The elephant and wheel motif appears across multiple regional issues of the early medieval Deccan and its peripheries, making precise attribution genuinely difficult — scholars have proposed everything from minor feudatory mints to merchant guild issues for coins of this class. At roughly 0.78g this piece falls well below the standard ratti-based weight systems that governed most contemporary Indian copper coinage, suggesting either local deviation or significant post-minting wear before it left circulation.