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| Issuer | Bhadravati, City of |
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| Year | 210 BC - 190 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Elephant advancing to right in high relief, depicted with characteristic summary rendering typical of early Indian cast coinage. The animal's form is rendered with bold, punched lines conveying mass and movement within the irregular rectangular flan. The field is plain with no additional symbols or legends. |
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| Reverse description | Central device of a tree-in-railing motif, a sacred symbol commonly associated with early Indian city coinage, surrounded by a Brahmi legend reading 'Bhaddavati' denoting the issuing city. The inscription is arranged around the central device in the characteristic angular Brahmi script of the early post-Mauryan period, with individual akshara characters clearly defined within the rectangular field. |
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Bhadravati was a minor urban center in the Deccan region, and its copper coinage belongs to a broad category of punch-marked and cast issues that circulated among local merchant communities largely independent of the Mauryan imperial monetary network. At this particular weight standard — well below the karshapana norm — these pieces functioned as fractional currency for small-scale exchange rather than long-distance trade.