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Damma - Rana Hastin Chaulukya Feudatory
| Issuer | Chalukya dynasty |
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| Year | 900-1000 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Nagari |
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| Mintage | ND (900-1000) |
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The Chaulukya feudatories of this period occupied a complicated middle tier of early medieval Indian political structure — nominally subordinate to the Gurjara-Pratihara paramount power while maintaining enough local authority to strike their own coinage. The damma denomination itself derives from the Arabic dirham, absorbed into western Indian monetary practice through sustained trade contact with Sind following the Umayyad conquest of 712 AD.
Rana Hastin remains poorly documented in the epigraphic record, which makes die-linked specimens across collections the primary tool for establishing even approximate chronology within this series.