INDIA, VIDARBHA or ASHMAKA janapada: AR punchmarked 1/3 karshapana. RARE and CHOICE!

Obverse	Four punches: Elephant left with circle (sun?) above, Bull left with pellet (moon?) before, Eye (netrabindumandala) and yoked team of plough oxen with pellets before. See line drawing for full depiction of punches.
Reverse	Blank
Date	c. 5th century BCE
Weight	1.23 gm.
Dimensions	18 x 13 mm.
Die axis	n.a.
Reference	Rajgor 27v (Andhra janapada), Kulkarni V2.7
Comments	This coin is a variant of Rajgor 27, which he attributed to the Andhra janapada because that coin type was known from a single hoard found in Andhra. There have now been multiple finds of similar coins in Vidarbha. See Prashant P. Kulkarni's paper "Coins of Vidarbha Janapada" in the ONS Newsletter, 178, Winter 2004 and Kulkarni: Archaic Coinage of Godavari Valley and the Deccan, 2022. The variation from Raj 27 is that the bull here faces left, while in Raj 27 it faces right. A CHOICE example!