| Obverse |
Stylized bull couchant right on a platform, with prominent horns above, conch before with single dots above and below, chakra above, dot below |
| Reverse |
Stylized letter sa, for samvat (year), flanked by goad and battle axe, Anka date 15 below, legend sri rama above |
| Date |
c. 1419
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| Weight |
0.47 gm. |
| Diameter |
10-11 mm. |
| Die axis |
11 o'clock |
| Reference |
MNI 677 var, Tandon, JONS 34-35, 5.17 (this coin) |
| Comments |
These coins were unobtainable until a small hoard emerged recently. They are still rare. The distinguishing features of the "Series 5" coins attributed to Bhanudeva IV are that a conch has replaced the circle in front of the bull, and a chakra has replaced the sun and moon above. The legend sri rama on the reverse was introduced by his predecessor, Narasimha IV.
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 5.17 in the Appendix to my paper.
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