Coin from the Western Shan States

Version: (e58a53b), last modified (c4e1250).

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 and Julian K. Wheatley. 2018–03–26. “Corpus of Pyu inscriptions.” Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1207290. [URL]. Item DHARMA_INSPYU00071.