Posted 11/28/2024 08:25 am
This is a class of coin known as a "bull and horseman" jital. The horseman is I hope obvious; the bull on the other side is perhaps less so, but it may help if I say to rotate your pic 90 degrees anticlockwise, and to mention that it is an Indian variety or "Brahman" bull, with the hump on its back.
Bull-and-horseman jitals were issued by the Hindu rulers of what is now Afghanistan and surrounding regions, and later by their Muslim conquerors. They were issued for several hundred years, roughly AD 800-1100 I believe. As with Celtic coins, the original early coin designs were quite recognizable but later coins, which were copies-of-copies-of-copies, tended to degrade and lose details until there was nothing left of the bull except the eye.
Bull-and-horseman jitals were issued by the Hindu rulers of what is now Afghanistan and surrounding regions, and later by their Muslim conquerors. They were issued for several hundred years, roughly AD 800-1100 I believe. As with Celtic coins, the original early coin designs were quite recognizable but later coins, which were copies-of-copies-of-copies, tended to degrade and lose details until there was nothing left of the bull except the eye.
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