Not Your Usual Weird Ancient Coin - Nagas Of Narwar?

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january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5174 Posts	Posted 11/28/2019 4:20 pm I bought this coin back in mid-October; literally picked it out of the bin as "huh, this looks weird, wonder what it is". Between the weird lines and the awful-looking condition, I thought it would just always stay unidentified. However, while (unsuccessfully) trying to look up a morning purchase on Numista today, I stumbled on some entries that looked very familiar... Nagas of Narwar?, 1/4 kakini? 10x8 mm, 0.65 g (but might have been more when minted) Obverse: humped bull left within dotted circle; reverse is probably some kind of legend Unattributed; cf. Numista 89917 (not quite a match) Anyone here able to figure out which type this is? I want to enter this on Numista, but can't tell anything from this reverse, and most examples that I could find are round. Report this Post to the Staff

Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 11/28/2019 4:59 pm Very neat. Fyi, earlier this year, in the books/downloads/websites sticky section, I provided a link to an online slideshow of Indian coins. The Nagas of Narwar coins start on page 106 of the slideshow. You might want to take a look to see if anything seems like a close match. Here's the link: https://www.slideshare.net/sujitm1/...indian-coins Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5174 Posts	Posted 11/28/2019 5:09 pm Quote: You might want to take a look to see if anything seems like a close match. I will try to do so as soon as I could figure out how to get around Slideshare being (apparently) blocked in my country. Report this Post to the Staff
Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 11/28/2019 5:18 pm Screenshots of the relevant pages. Not sure this will be of help, but here they are. Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5174 Posts	Posted 11/28/2019 5:47 pm ...OK, so TL/DR is that this size means it's probably Ganapati (I can't find any non-Ganapati examples with a quick search), but I can enter it under this type anyway regardless of whether it's Ganapati or not. Correct? Report this Post to the Staff
Palouche Pillar of the Community Spain 2752 Posts	Posted 11/28/2019 6:09 pm I have one of these coins.... Maybe it will help... Nagas of Padmavati 335-340AD 1/4 Kakini with quite nice detail for this type of coin and reasonably central. 9mm dia and 0.69gr. Obverse - Humped bull standing left. Reverse- Maharaja sri ga (Ganendra) in Brahmi script. Edited by Palouche 11/28/2019 6:10 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Kushanshah Pillar of the Community United States 1554 Posts	Posted 11/28/2019 7:34 pm Ganapati Naga is likely, I think. There were a couple of other rulers who issued the bull/ inscription type but those should be of larger module. There may not be enough of the reverse legible for a positive ID but the coins of Ganapati are by far the most numerous and the only ones which should weigh in as low as 0.65gm. Whether the range of weights for Ganapti's coins represent several denominations or a single denomination with declining module is a matter of conjecture. Published weights are all over the place. Mitchiner notes a range for Ganapati of 0.20 to 2.3gm with a "mode" around 0.8gm. Smaller coins tend to have abbreviated legends. Palouche's "Padmavati" is the name of an ancient city near modern Narwar. Edited by Kushanshah 11/28/2019 7:38 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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