Coinage in India: Coins of Chalukyan Kings and Coins of the Rajput Dynasties

Coins of Chalukyan Kings

  • Pulakeshin I founded the Chalukyan dynasty (6th century CE) with its capital at Badami in Karnataka.
  • One side of the coin had an image of a temple or a lion and legends. The other side was left blank.
  • The coins of the Eastern Chalukyan dynasty (7th–12th century CE) had a symbol of the boar at the centre, with each letter of the king’s name inscribed by a separate punch. The other side here also was left blank.

Coins of the Rajput Dynasties

  • The coins issued by the Rajput dynasties (11th–12th century CE) were mostly of gold, copper, or billon (an alloy of silver and copper) but very rarely of silver.
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