# Coin from the Western Shan States

Arlo Griffiths, Marc Miyake and Julian Karl Wheatley

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths, Marc Miyake, Julian Karl
Wheatley

Identifier: DHARMA_INSPYU00071

Repository: Pyu (tfc-pyu-epigraphy)

File path: DHARMA_INSPYU00071.xml

Language: Pyu [Script (unspecified)]

Commit: 2026-09-09 14:27 (899538b), last modified 2026-09-09 14:27
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## Edition

⟨1⟩ [sva]yodhana ⟨2⟩ yavapa ⟨3⟩ ’pa

## Commentary

Type IV of Mahlo’s coins.

Text supplied on the basis of 070 (type III)?

If correctly deciphered, the script on this coin would be very archaic
indeed. Much more so than that seen on the other coins. This one
possibly not in the Pyu language.

## Bibliography

Illustrated in Mahlo 2012, pp. 132, 167 (app. 27.2), which did not
recognize the inscription on the reverse as Pyu. Edited here from
Mahlo’s published photograph.

### Primary

Griffiths, Arlo, Marc Miyake & Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus
of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item
DHARMA_INSPYU00071.