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Silver drachm (13 mm) of Bhartrdaman (278-295 AD), Western Satraps in India

Silver drachm (13 mm) of Bhartrdaman (278-295 AD), Western Satraps in India

$ 11.08

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    Description

    Scarce small bronze trachy
    Silver drachm
    (13 mm)
    of Bhartrdaman (278-295 AD), Western Satraps in India
    Size and weight:
    13 mm, 2.1 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
    ,  "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#
    is1051