1 Drachm - Gurjuras of Jodhpur

The Gurjara confederacy emerged as a dominant force in northwestern India following the collapse of Gupta imperial authority, occupying the regions of Rajasthan and Gujarat during a period of sustained political fragmentation. Their coinage derives directly from late Sasanian prototypes — a borrowing that reflects the intense commercial and diplomatic contact across the Thar Desert frontier rather than any political subordination. The drachm module itself was essentially a foreign import, adopted wholesale because the Sasanian silver standard was already trusted by the merchants these chiefs needed to tax and trade with.

Mitchiner's NI#216 classification places this within the Jodhpur regional grouping, though attribution of individual pieces to specific Gurjara chiefs remains difficult given the absence of datable inscriptions on most specimens.