A 1000-year-old mint site belonging to the Pratihara period has been found at Rohtak in Haryana, thanks to the efforts of an alert academician and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
About 31 pieces of terracotta coin moulds for casting coins of King MihiraBhoja, the mightly ruler of the Pratihara dynasty of Kannauj who ruled between 836 and 885 AD covering almost entire northern and central India, has been excavated during a brief survey in the site last month.
The mint site is spread over an area of about 100 m in east-west and 50 m in north-south direction.
Located amidst a comparatively very large spread of an early medieval city site at Majra village, it seems to have been occupied after the destruction of the earlier city site of Rohtak, a press release here said.
It all started with Manmohan Kumar, a retired professor of MD University, Rohtak, drawing the attention of ASI Additional Director General B R Mani towards the site as it has yielded some terracotta moulds for making coins in mid- January this year.
The site was neither protected by the state government or the ASI.
Thereafter, the ASI decided to immediately do some salvage operation through exploration.
