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Message:: [QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3609126, member: 98035"]Thanks [USER=74834]@Pellinore[/USER]! My avatar comes near the beginning of the "curved head" type - my personal favorite series and IMO some of the most aesthetically pleasing coins to come out of medieval India. [USER=89687]@ominus1[/USER], that is actually one of the last coins to come of the main "gadhaiya" type. I call it 1.5 - they are dumpy, usually visibly debased, and about 90% don't show an eye at all in the portrait. Most importantly, the ribbon in front of the lips is different - the backwards S is still there, but it leads straight to the brim of the hat. The three horizontal bars are still present, just pushed to the right - you can see the tip of the upper bar on the edge of the flan, even with the tip of the nose. The best theory I have read about these is that *IF* the bulk of the Gadhaiya were minted by the Chaulukyas of Gujarat (and that is a pretty big if... Maheshwari's find spots indicate that many rajput states may have made these concurrently) then series 1.5 was probably made by the Vaghelas - a tributary state that rebelled against and overthrew the Chaulukyas, ruled just 60 years, then fell to the Muslims at the turn of the 14th century. That would correspond well to the coins, which all adhere to a tight weight standard of ~4.5g (.3g heavier than their predecessors), show little stylistic variance, and terminate abruptly with no subsequent iterations.[/QUOTE]