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Æ Unit
| Issuer | Yaudheya, Tribal republic of |
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| Year | 201-401 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse lettering | Yaudheya-ganasya jaya |
| Reverse description | Standing figure, likely a deity or attendant, depicted nude in frontal stance with arms extended, holding objects to either side — possibly a fruit or globe to the left and a serpent or branch to the right. The figure is surrounded by floral or vegetal ornaments within a beaded border, rendered in the schematic linear style characteristic of Yaudheya tribal coinage of the 3rd–4th centuries CE. |
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The Yaudheyas were a kshatriya warrior republic occupying the Punjab and Haryana regions, known from Panini's grammar and later from Gupta-era inscriptions that describe them as a formidable confederacy. Their coinage is among the few surviving material records of a polity that resisted outside domination long enough to mint in its own name across two centuries. The specific attribution window reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty — the republic's numismatic chronology remains incompletely resolved, with Mitchiner's corpus still the primary reference precisely because so little excavation data has refined it.