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Damma - Sri Yashaditya right, pellet crown
| Issuer | Sindh Kingdom (Indian states) |
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| Year | 679-712 |
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| Reference(s) | ACR#934 |
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| Reverse description | Central field occupied by a Brahmi legend in multiple lines, reading 'Sri Yasaaditya', arranged around a vertical axis. The inscription is executed in bold, raised Brahmi characters typical of Sindh damma coinage. A circular border of faint pellets or linear devices surrounds the legend. The script is characteristic of the early 8th-century northwestern Indian epigraphic tradition, rendered in a somewhat schematic hand consistent with the hammered production technique. |
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| Reverse lettering | (Translation: sri yasaaditya) |
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Yashaditya was among the last Hindu rulers of Sindh before the Umayyad general Muhammad bin Qasim conquered the region in 712 AD, ending a political order that had persisted for centuries. These tiny silver dammas circulated in the final decades of that kingdom, making survivorship more a matter of luck than hoarding.