INDIA, Medieval. Pratiharas. Uncertain, circa 950-1025. Gadhaiya (Bronze, 17 mm, 4.17 g), emission 5b, late Pratiharas. Stylized Sasanian head to right, wearing crown surmounted by crescent. Rev. Stylized Sasanian fire altar; in upper field to left and right, pelleted sun and crescent. B.U. Abels: Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklung der Gadhia-Münzen, in: Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Archäologie, vol. 4 (1982), p. 114, 5b.1 ( this coin ). Nicely toned. About extremely fine.

From the collection of Prof. Dr. Björn-Uwe Abels, privately acquired from Münzenhandlung Ulrike Müller in Villingen in 1979.