ஏகமுக லிங்கக் கோவில் அமைத்த ஸ்ரீ வப்ப ராஜா (கி.பி. 728 - 753 Reign) வெளியிட்ட பள்ளிப்படைத் தங்கக் காசு

[N. Ganesan]

A "paLLippaTai" (Devaraja cult) gold coin from 8th century CE

It is Sri VapparA(ja). It is this King, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bappa_Rawal
That is leaving out the decoration/symbol on top of  "Va".  Otherwise,
"Sri Voppar(Aja)" can be read.

An early example of PaLLippadai temple. The interesting thing is this King,
Founder of Rajput dynasties in India, issues this coin after his father's death.
hArIta rA'si, was his Pasupata guru (See David G. White, The Alchemical Body, 2014, pp. 120-121).
He built the Ekamukha Linga temple near Udaypur. It appears that the trident, Shiva Lingam
and Nandi are above the corpse of the king Sri Vapparaja's father, Nagaditya.

Ekamukha Linga and Sri Vappa raja legend:
"According to the 15th century text Ekalinga Mahatmya (also called Ekalinga Purana), Bappa was the ninth descendant of the Guhila dynasty's founder Guhadatta. The text credits him with establishing the Mewar Kingdom in 728 CE, and with building the Eklingji temple.[1]

The Ekalinga Mahatmya and other bardic chronicles state that Bappa's father Nagaditya and all other male members of his family were killed in a battle with the Bhils of Idar.[1][2] He remained in disguise, accompanied by his two loyal Bhil attendants. He was brought up by a Brahmin lady of Nagda, who employed him as a caretaker of cows. One day, he met the sage Harit Rashi.[2] The sage agreed to initiate him into a Shaivite order, and to grant him immortality and supernatural powers. When Bappa reached the initiation site, he saw the sage ascending to the sky. The sage spit at him, and asked Bappa to receive the spit in his mouth in order to become immortal. Bappa hesitated in disgust, because of which the sage's spit fell on his foot. " (from Wikipedia).

The other side of the coin shows VaitaraNI river, above which goloka (calf suckling with cow) and above
which the king's soul with a flowing robe.  

Let me give another Ekamukha linga in the far South. About 5 - 4 centuries earlier than Vappadeva building Ekamukha Linga temple, presumably for his father, Nagaditya as a "PaLLippaDai" memorial temple. Interestingly there is an Ekamukha linga, ~1800 years old with Tamil Brahmi inscription that has been found 3 weeks ago in Kinnimangalam, near Madurai. In Netrambakkam, Inuvil (Sri Lanka), Kinnimangalam memorial linga-s Tamil Brahmi have been found this year. Possibly also a PaLLippaDai temple for "ekan aatan", the Tamil Brahmi legend is "ekan aatan kOTTam". These 3 linga-s are the source for later Pallava (Chozhapuram near Kanchipuram) and in South East Asia known as Devaraja cult temples (H. Kulke), memorials for kings built in several acres ...
http://nganesan.blogspot.com/2020/07/ekamukha-linga-with-tamil-brahmi.html
http://nganesan.blogspot.com/2020/07/kinnimangalam-linga-brahmi-pulli.html
http://nganesan.blogspot.com/2020/08/civasvami-in-edakkal-cave-brahmi.html

Tolkappiyam grammar calls this gifting to Brahmins as "kapilai kaNNIya vELvi nilai", see ancient Tamil quotes from my mail 20 years ago.
http://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology_list.indology.info/2001-January/025215.html
In a  poem quoted by Naccin2Arkkin2iyar in his
commentary on the ancient grammar TolkAppiyam, the godhUli is
praised heavily: the gifting of cattle herds with
cows and calves to brahmins creates a goloka (which is really
a part of the Heaven acc. to purANas) on this
very bhUloka! The gifted herds raise so much godhUli
that the dust makes the goloka in the skies get covered
with soil dust from the bhUloka with the end result that
the goloka of the Heaven appears to be bhUloka!

     vELvinilai
     -----------
  TolkAppiyam commentary (tol. poruL. 90. nac.)

  pon2 niRainta poRkOTTup, poRkuLampiR *kaRRA* tantu
  in2makizAn2 antaNarai in2puRuppar - cen2n2itan2
  mAnilamE An2ulakam pOn2Ratu; vAn2 tukaL pOrttu
  An2ulakam maNNulakAm an2Ru!

Sri. Mu. Raghava Aiyangar, in his Peruntokai anthology,
comments on this poem.
"itan2aik kapilai kaNNiya vELvinilai en2par tolkAppiyan2Ar.
cEtAvin2aik koTukkak karutiya koTai en2patu
naccin2Arkkin2iyam. poRkOTu - azakiya kompu. pon2 niRainta
kOTum, poR kuLampum, kan2Rum uTaiyavAka An2iraiyai aLittu
en2ka. in2makizAn2 - mukattAn2 in2imaiyum, akattAn2
makizvumAy. cenn2i vELviyil aLitta aak koTaiyAl pUlOkam
kOlOkam pOlavum, avvAn2iraiyin2in2Ru ezunta tULi
pOrttalAl, kOlOkam pUlOkam pOlavum mARalAyin2a en2ka."

Note that kaRRA 'calf-cow' herds are mentioned in the
poem (probably composed after tol. which is supposed
to be the first tamil book), Naccin2Arkkin2iyar
uses cEtA. from http://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology_list.indology.info/2001-January/025215.html

I will write an essay on this very rare coin and its significance.
N. Ganesan

PS: For Kamala Harris, whose mom was a Tamil now in "sacred cow"'s goloka, I suppose.