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| Emittent | Kuninda Kingdom (Western Himalayas) |
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| Jahr | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Material | Silver |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Central field depicts a standing deer facing right, accompanied by the goddess Lakshmi holding a lotus flower, with a srivatsa symbol and a vase also present in the field. The composition reflects early Indo-Himalayan iconographic conventions blending royal and religious symbolism. A continuous legend in Brahmi script encircles the central design, reading 'Rajnah Kunindasya Amoghabhutisya maharajasya', identifying the issuing sovereign. The style is characteristic of the early Kuninda coinage, with figures rendered in a schematic, pre-classical manner. The surface is irregular, consistent with hand-hammered production techniques of the period. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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The Kuninda Kingdom occupied the upper Beas and Sutlej valleys, and Amoghabhuti is the only Kuninda ruler known by name from coins — every other aspect of the dynasty's political history has to be reconstructed from his issues alone. His coinage circulated at a moment when Indo-Greek pressure from Bactria was reshaping every petty kingdom along the northwestern Himalayan fringe, and Kuninda numismatic style shows clear absorption of Hellenistic die-cutting conventions onto an otherwise indigenous format.