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Æ Unit - Rajuvula Herakles & Lion Type
| Issuer | Northern Satraps (Indo-Scythian Kingdom) |
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| Year | 25 BC - 15 BC |
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| Value | Hemi Obol (1⁄240) |
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| Obverse script | Brahmi |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Rajuvula operated as a regional satrap under the broader Indo-Scythian political structure in the Punjab, but his precise relationship to the main Azes dynastic line remains contested among scholars. His bronze coinage draws directly on Hellenistic visual vocabulary that had already been circulating in the region for over two centuries by the time these were struck — inherited from the Bactrian Greek kingdoms absorbed long before Scythian expansion reached the Indus valley.
The ACR reference places this among a class of bronzes that circulated in areas where multiple coinage traditions overlapped, leaving attribution debates unresolved even in specialist literature.