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1 Drachm
| Issuer | Audumbara tribe |
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| Year | 101 BC - 1 BC |
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| Weight | 2.23 g |
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| Obverse script | Kharosthi |
| Obverse lettering | Bhagavata mahadevasa rajarana |
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The Audumbaras were a tribal republic of the Punjab foothills, their territory centered near the Beas and Ravi rivers, and their coinage is among the earliest evidence we have of a non-imperial, non-Greco-Bactrian silver-issuing authority in the region. They appear in Vedic literature as a people associated with the fig tree — audumbara being Sanskrit for the cluster fig — and their autonomous minting places them within a broader phenomenon of janapada and tribal coinages that flourished as Mauryan central authority collapsed and before the Kushans consolidated the northwest.
The century-long date range reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty rather than prolonged production.