Kadambas of Hangal
Rare Pagoda

392, Lot: 702. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Medieval (Southern Deccan). Kadambas of Hangal. 12th-13th centuries AD. AV Pagoda (21mm, 4.23 g). Sri Hanuman seated facing, head right; conch and ankus at feet, nakara in Kannada in exergue / Floral spray within decorative border. Mitchiner, South I, 229-231; G&G 1. EF, traces of deposits on reverse. Rare.

The Kadambas achieved autonomy in the Deccan under Chattadeva (980-1031). His grandson Toyimadeva (1048-1075) was the only ruler to strike named coinage. Anonymous pagodas and fanams were struck in the 12th-13th centuries, the dynasty ending with the expansion of the Delhi sultanate into the region in the early 1300s.