Catalog
1 Drachm - Amoghabhuti
| Issuer | Kuninda Kingdom (Western Himalayas) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse lettering | Rajnah Kunindasya Amoghabhutisya maharajasya |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Kuninda were a hill people of the upper Yamuna and Sutlej watersheds whose coinage appears to have emerged under indirect influence from the post-Mauryan vacuum — no centralized imperial authority remained to suppress local monetary initiative. Amoghabhuti is the only Kuninda ruler attested by name on surviving coins, making him something of a ghost: known entirely through numismatic evidence, with no corroborating inscription or textual source yet confirmed.
The drachm standard itself reflects contact with Indo-Greek monetary practice filtering down from Bactria.