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| Issuer | Kuninda Kingdom (Western Himalayas) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Brahmi |
| Obverse lettering | Rajnah Kunindasya Amoghabhutisya maharajasya (Translation: Great King Amoghabhuti, of the Kunindas) |
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The Kuninda Kingdom occupied the upper Beas and Sutlej valleys and maintained a surprisingly sophisticated coinage tradition for a hill polity of its scale. Amoghabhuti is the only Kuninda ruler known by name from numismatic evidence alone — no inscription or literary source independently confirms him. His silver drachms are among the earliest indigenous coinage of the northwestern Himalayan foothills, issued at a moment when Indo-Greek political pressure from the Bactrian kingdoms was reshaping monetary habits across the entire Punjab region.