1/2 Kakini - Ganpati Naga

The Naga dynasties of north-central India — centered on sites including Narwar, Padmavati, and Mathura — operated as regional powers during the gradual fragmentation following the Kushana decline, issuing their own copper coinage before being absorbed by the expanding Gupta empire in the fourth century. The specific attribution to "Ganpati Naga" places this piece among a sequence of rulers whose dynastic order and precise reigns remain contested among scholars, with numismatic evidence often doing more interpretive work than any surviving inscription.