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Silver drachm, Bhartrdaman (277-295 AD) as Mahakshatrap, 294 AD, Western India

Silver drachm, Bhartrdaman (277-295 AD) as Mahakshatrap, 294 AD, Western India

$ 14.52

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    Description

    Scarce small bronze trachy
    Indo-Sakas in Western India, silver drachm, Bhartrdaman (277-295 AD), as Mahakshatrap (282-295 AD), 294 AD
    Size and weight:
    14 mm, 2.4 grams.
    Bust of Bhartrdaman right, with corrupted Greek legend (Indo-Greek style / Three-arched hill or Chaitya, with river, crescent and sun, within legend in Brahmi
    Rajno Mahaksatrapasa Rudrasenaputrasa Rajnah Mahaksatrapasa Bhartrdamna
    , date in Brahmi numerals behind (216 SE/294 AD), "Studies in the Coinage of Western Kshatrapas" #667-668; Senior ISCH 356.31.
    The Western Kshatrapas, or Western Satraps, (35-405 CE) were Saka rulers of the western and central part of India (Saurashtra and Malwa: modern Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states). They were contemporaneous with the Kushans who ruled the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, and the Satavahana (Andhra) who ruled in Central India.
    This coin is guaranteed to be authentic.
    Stock#
    is1070