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The coin does not bear the mint name but it was minted at capital town in the year AH 97 (AD 716) which is given in the obverse margin and indicates that it was issued during the time of Khalifa Sulaiman. Seals:
I have found four baked earth seals from Nani Rayan. 1 A numerical seal: It is a 43 x 25 x 8 mms sized, rectangular, biscuit
like piece of baked earth. It's surface has 10 vertical lines inscribed over it, presumably done before it was baked. This is known as numerical representation. When written numbers were not discovered people used to communicate numbers in this form. Mr. Denise Schmandt-Bessert, in his article, "Accounting with Tokens in the ancient near East, has mentioned "Small clay tokens of multiple
shapes are found in Near Eastern Sites of 8000-3000BC constitute the earliest evidence for accounting". These kind of seals are at display in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Numerical Seal displayed in The Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York City
Red, circular cake or 37 x10 mms. There is a Trishul (Tridant of Shiv) on the upper left corner and two Brhami letters on its right. A reverse Swastik sign is on the lower right corner below the letters. Dr Parmeshwarilal Gupta, The director of The Indian institute of research in Numismatic studies, had studied this seal. He believed that both the symbols are auspicious symbols and may be the trade mark of the owner. The letters are the sounds "LA"and “BRA"or“ BRU". A faint horizontal line cutting the vertical line below BA can make this letter BKA. In any case they appear to be the initials of the two parts of the name.
A yellow goblet of Spherical shape (24 x20 mm). There are three small depressions on the three surfaces of the seal and in each depression there are Brahmi letters. They have not been deciphered, yet.
A semi convex circular structure(28-10 mm) There are six deep depressions on the convex surfce. Five of depressions make a sort of a circle enclosing the sixth in the center. In every depression there are faint symbols and Brahmi script. Only in one depression the symbol is clearly visible. It shows a large legged bustard like bird. An owl can be seen sitting on the tail of that bird. Some Brahmi letters are seen at the edges. These letters, too, are not deciphered nor is its significance known.
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