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<p>[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 7909429, member: 102653"]Super cool panzerman, congrats on the buy! Your piece is quite overweight too, the two denominations it sits between is the AV Massa at 2.4g and the AV Atak at 1.2g. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse of this type (and most surviving Javanese gold piloncito coins) bears a corrupted image which has been abstracted from a purnakalasha (vase of plenty) which is a holy image in Buddhism. The connection of the unclear/damaged face of these coins with the purnakalasha is currently unpublished but I have ran across a handful of examples which depict the evolution. It's pretty odd that the religious image was so quickly degraded into meaningless lines and gashes on nearly all examples (95%+) and continued to be minted for centuries without the purnakalasha making a reappearance in good image.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TuckHard, post: 7909429, member: 102653"]Super cool panzerman, congrats on the buy! Your piece is quite overweight too, the two denominations it sits between is the AV Massa at 2.4g and the AV Atak at 1.2g. The obverse of this type (and most surviving Javanese gold piloncito coins) bears a corrupted image which has been abstracted from a purnakalasha (vase of plenty) which is a holy image in Buddhism. The connection of the unclear/damaged face of these coins with the purnakalasha is currently unpublished but I have ran across a handful of examples which depict the evolution. It's pretty odd that the religious image was so quickly degraded into meaningless lines and gashes on nearly all examples (95%+) and continued to be minted for centuries without the purnakalasha making a reappearance in good image.[/QUOTE]
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