1 Karshapana - Agnimitra

Agnimitra was the second ruler of the Shunga dynasty, better known from Kalidasa's Sanskrit play Malavikagnimitra than from his coins. The Panchalas, operating from their base around Ahichhatra in what is now northern Uttar Pradesh, issued punch-marked and cast bronzes across a span of rulers whose exact sequence remains contested among scholars — Mitchiner's attribution to Agnimitra specifically rests on monogram analysis that not all specialists accept.

The Shunga-Panchala interface of this period is genuinely murky, with regional authority fragmenting rapidly after Pushyamitra's death around 148 BCE.