1 Gadhaiya Paisa - Chaulukyas of Gujarat

The Gadhaiya Paisa tradition descends from Sasanian silver drachms that entered northwestern India as trade currency, their fire-altar reverses gradually abstracted through generations of local copying until the original imagery became nearly unrecognizable. By the Chaulukya period, the type had been in continuous degradation for roughly three centuries. The Chaulukyas struck heavily in copper for local market transactions while their silver issues served longer-distance trade through the prosperous ports of Saurashtra and Cambay.

DR#158 places this piece within a well-documented die-degeneration sequence — a useful anchor for attribution given how broadly these anonymous coins were produced across competing Gujarat dynasties.