10/04/2024
Officials of the Department of Archaeology and Museums have unearthed a coin hoard at the Phanigiri Buddhist site in Suryapet district in Telangana. The team discovered an earthen pot with 16.7 cm in diameter and 15 cm height at a depth of two feet on March 29. Inside the pot, the team found 3,730 lead coins with the elephant symbol on one side and the Ujjain symbol on the other side. According to the archaeologists, the coins belong to the Ikshvaku period dated between the 3rd century and 4th century Common Era.
The Phanigiri is an important Buddhist site that has only recently gained the importance it deserves with many of the excavated artefacts travelling the world most recently to the New York Met Museum.
