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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.
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.
Kongu Chera dynasty, or Cheras or Keralas [1] of Kongu or Karur, or simply as the Chera dynasty, were a medieval royal lineage in south India, initially ruling over western Tamil Nadu and central Kerala. [2] The headquarters of the Kongu Cheras was located at Karur-Vanchi , the ancient base of the early historic Cheras, in central Tamil Nadu.
Epigraphical, numismatic, archaeological and literary evidence have proved beyond doubt that Karur was the capital of early Chera kings of Sangam age. And Kongunadu is only the Chera Kingdom that extended up to the western coast till Muziri in Kerala, South India when the empire was at its peak and which the Cheras made it as their main port city.
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.
“The site where the coins were found was a main settlement area for miners.” In 2016, in nearby Switzerland, more than 200 coins from the 1300s were discovered by chance in a forest near Zurich.
This was for the first time, from a stratographic context, coins of Sangam Chera period have been found in Kerala. The coin, which is almost a square in shape, has an elephant facing to the right and some symbols toward the top of the coin. The symbols could not be identified as the upper part of the coin was partially corroded.
A ceramic pot turned into a jackpot for a woman on a walk in the Kutnohorsk Region of the Czech Republic. While out on a stroll, the woman happened upon a roughly 900-year-old stash of more than ...