22/09/2020
Price - Rs.600 include shipping
Obverse - Crossed swords in altar, lamps at left and right, pellets above
Reverse - Bow left, palm tree right, other symbols at center
Date - c. 14th centuries
Weight - 3.24 gm.
Diameter - 11-13 mm.
Die axis - 2 o'clock
Reference - MNI ---, Ganesh: The Coins of Tamilnadu, --- (unpublished)
Comments - The Kongu Cheras ruled in the Kongu area of what is now northwestern Tamilnadu (Coimbatore area) from
the late 10th century to the rise of Vijayanagar at the end of the 14th century. Their copper coins all have on the
obverse an altar of crossed swords flanked by lamps, with varying numbers of dots above, and a reverse consisting
of a bow left, a palm tree right and then varying designs in the center. Here the design seems to be a lamp ... an
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