Archer Type Drachm - Vishnugupta

Vishnugupta is the last ruler identifiable in the Later Gupta sequence, and his coins appear precisely when the dynasty was collapsing under sustained Aulikara and Maukhari pressure in the mid-sixth century. The debased silver reflects not a minting policy but a treasury under strain — the metallic degradation tracks almost directly with the loss of productive agricultural territories in the Gangetic plain.

Attributed examples are scarce enough that individual specimens have shifted scholarly debate about reign length and succession order.