After an absence of several hundred years, die-struck gold coins began to re-appear in North India in the eleventh century. following the introduction of punch-marked gold in South India in the tenth. All these issues had one point of unity: the figure of goddess Lakshmi, seated on a lotus (in the north) or her name, 'Sri (in the south). They became the dominant gold coins of most Rajput kingdoms. even being adopted by the early Turkish invaders.