Indo-Sakas in Western India, silver drachm, Bhartrdaman (277-295 AD), 288 AD

Description

Scarce small bronze trachy
Indo-Sakas in Western India, silver drachm, Bhartrdaman (277-295 AD), 288 AD
Size and weight:
13
mm, 1.2
grams
Bust of Bhartrdaman right, with corrupted Greek legend (Indo-Greek style), date in Brahmi numerals behind (210 SE/288 AD) / Three-arched hill or Chaitya, with river, crescent and sun, within legend in Brahmi
Rajno Mahaksatrapasa Rudrasenaputrasa Rajnah Mahaksatrapasa Bhartrdamna
."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.
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Stock# is1045