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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3769987, member: 98035&quot;]That&#039;s a nice example of one of the more common 1.4 types. I have managed to break up the other series into types I am relatively satisfied with, but the bulk of these intermediate Gadhaiya would require hundreds of varieties to comprehensively categorize them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The early Gadhaiya (if there is such a thing as an &quot;imperial&quot; coinage, that would apply here) are what I call the Orthodox type - they are almost identical to each other, exceptionally well struck on broad flans the size of the die, come in very aesthetic proportions, and are so common that there is always one for sale on ebay. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1008568[/ATTACH] </p><p>(That&#039;s actually a bad example; I bought it because of how well it showed the vestigial shoulder pads on the obverse)</p><p><br /></p><p>Everything else before the design begins to deteriorate is lumped into two groups of &quot;intermediate&quot; types- those with the eye line, and those without. On the former, the workmanship is good but the coins are never struck fully as they are with the Orthodox type, and there are more types of head shape than I can properly keep track of. A few recents:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1008571[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1008572[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1008573[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1008574[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>By the end, the flan has shrunk from 18mm to about 15-16mm on average, the purity has dropped, and the weight standard shifts from about 4.2g to 4.5g for unknown reasons. That&#039;s when we see the eye line disappear, the face degenerate, the attendants turn into meaningless rows of dots, and the flan shrink in diameter while becoming more dumpy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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