1/8 Karshapana - Achyuta

The Panchala kingdom, centered in the upper Gangetic plain roughly between modern Bareilly and Kampil, issued punch-marked and cast copper fractions through several named rulers during the late Kushana period, when central authority across northern India had fragmented considerably. Achyuta is among the better-documented Panchala rulers from numismatic evidence alone — literary sources are thin — placing his reign somewhere in the early-to-mid fourth century as the Guptas were consolidating power to the southeast.