Æ Unit - Amoghabhuti

The Kuninda were a tribal republic occupying the upper Beas and Sutlej river valleys, and Amoghabhuti is the only ruler of the dynasty attested by name on coinage — making him simultaneously the most documented and most historically obscure king of the lineage. His coins circulated in a region that sat between the expanding Indo-Greek kingdoms to the west and the Sungas to the east, a political pressure that likely drove the issuance of a local currency as an assertion of autonomous authority. Punch-marked and cast coinages dominated the subcontinent at this date; the Kuninda issues represent an early regional adoption of die-struck production, probably influenced by Indo-Greek minting practice.