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A Chera coin with legend "Makkotai" A number of coins, assumed to be of the Cheras, which are mostly found in the bed of the Amaravati River in Tamil Nadu, are a major source of early Chera historiography. [24] These include punch-marked coins. Square coins of copper and its alloys or silver have also been discovered.
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Kuttuvan Kotai (Tamil: குட்டுவன் கோதை), also spelled Kothai/Kodai, [1] was a Chera ruler of early historic (pre-Pallava) south India. [2] [3]Silver coins bearing a portrait facing right with Tamil-Brahmi legend "Ku-t-tu-va-n Ko-tai" have been discovered from Amaravati riverbed in Karur, central Tamil Nadu.
After the fall of the second Chera kingdom, a lot of small feudal kingdoms emerged. During the medieval times, the surviving Cheras, along with the Ay dynasty evolved into the Venad kingdom (and subsequently into the Kingdom of Travancore) while the Mushika dynasty evolved into the Kingdom of Kolathunadu.
The obverse of these coins bear the image of the goddess holding lotus stalks, surmounted by two elephants pouring water. Initially these were thought to be votive offerings. but now scholars are unanimous that they were indeed coins. [1] They are early coins of the Chera Dynasty from about 500 BCE found in Kandarodai.
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