1 Drachm - Gautamiputra Yajna Satakarni

Gautamiputra Yajna Satakarni ruled as one of the later Satavahana kings during a dynasty already well past its political peak. The Satavahanas had long contested the Deccan with successive waves of Western Kshatrapa rulers, and silver drachms of this type show direct typological borrowing from Kshatrapa coinage — a pragmatic adoption of a format their rivals had already established as the dominant currency across western India.

ACR#688 places this squarely within the documented series, though precise regnal attribution among late Satavahana silver remains contested by specialists given overlapping patronymic naming conventions within the dynasty.