Eighty six punch marked gold coins dated to the Vijayanagara-era were found in an iron pot when a group of workers were levelling an open farmland at Sundarampalli village near Jolarpet town in Tirupattur. They found a bunch of gold coins in different sizes and shapes. Archeologists said that gold coins, on an average, will be around five milimetres in size. The gold coins found have the emblem of a pig, an animal depicted by Vijayanagara rulers in various engravings. This is the second incident of finding gold coins; 103 Vijayanagara era gold coins were unearthed from a Chola-era Shiva temple in Jawadhu Hills in Tiruvannamalai in November.

Source: Punch December 28, 2025 18:04 UTC