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Æ Drachm
| Issuer | Yaudheya Gana (Tribal Republic) |
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| Year | 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND - Struck circa 1st Century |
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The Yaudheyas were a kshatriya tribal confederacy occupying the Punjab and Haryana regions, known primarily from Panini's references and later Gupta-era prasastis that describe them as refusing subjugation. Their copper coinage was a collective civic issue — struck in the name of the gana rather than any individual ruler — which is precisely what makes it unusual among contemporaneous Indian issues, most of which advertise dynastic authority.
Copper drachms of this confederacy are among the earliest securely attributed issues of a non-monarchical Indian polity.