| Obverse |
Stylized bull couchant right on a platform, with prominent horns above, circle before with single dots above and below, sun and two moons above, goad behind, dot below, one banker's mark
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| Reverse |
Stylized letter sa, for samvat (year), flanked by goad and battle axe, Anka date 3 below |
| Date |
14th century |
| Weight |
0.51 gm. |
| Diameter |
11-12 mm. |
| Die axis |
5 o'clock |
| Reference |
MNI 677 var, Tandon, Numismatic Digest 34-35, 3.06 (this coin) |
| Comments |
These coins were unobtainable until a small hoard emerged recently. They are still rare. The distinguishing features of the "Series 3" coins attributed to Bhanudeva III are that there is only one dot above the circle in front of the bull, and the letter sa on the reverse is more elongated than before and closed on the bottom.
The Eastern Gangas were the dynasty who built the famous Sun Temple at Konarak. Their coins are the first non-Islamic coins in India to use the decimal, or place-number, system to write the dates.
Attributions are tentative and based on my paper (which appeared in the journal Numismatic Digest). A brief summary of the work can be seen here:
This coin was coin 3.06 in the Appendix to my paper. Note the small banker's mark.
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