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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 8247038, member: 98035&quot;][USER=91240]@SeptimusT[/USER] yes, there are actually two - one with the legend Sri Omkara</p><p><br /></p><p>(Really bad example - I only have a couple of my ~100 imaged)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452415[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And the OM as shown above </p><p><br /></p><p>These have historically (by Mitchiner etc) been attributed to the Omkara monastery in Malwa, but Maheshwari demonstrated that they are too common to be a monastic coinage, and probably were issued by a local dynasty that wished to remain anonymous.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t done a whole lot of research on it, but those OM coins may be one of the earlier examples of the modern calligraphy for the sacred symbol.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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