South Indian coins, Nos. 1-10 (detail): copper and gold spherules (1-2), silver punch-marked pieces, "salakas, puranas, or eldlings" (3-6), and early gold pieces (7-10) (Elliot 1886, Pl. I)

Engraved drawings of ten small coins in two rows, both faces of each; the irregular silver pieces numbered 3 to 6 are crowded with separately punched symbols such as suns, an elephant and a dog-like animal.

Type: Coin
Creator: Walter Elliot (lithograph by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son)
Date: 1886
Licence: Public domain
From: Walter Elliot, Coins of Southern India (International Numismata Orientalia, Vol. III, Part 2) (opens in a new tab), 1886, Pl. I, Nos. 1-10 (PDF p. 187 of scan 00074712bsb); text pp. 45, 50-51
Original: archive.org (opens in a new tab)
Appears in: Trade & economy