Damma - Sri Yashaditya Type 4

Descrizione del dritto	Highly schematized and degenerate crowned bust facing right, rendered in a bold but abstracted style characteristic of late Sindhi coinage. The crown is depicted as a broad horizontal band surmounted by a simplified stepped or tiered element. The facial features are reduced to a schematic form, with the neck and lower bust visible below. A dot is present in the central field, and the entire design is enclosed within a border of dots along the periphery.
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Descrizione del rovescio	Accedi per vedere i dettagli
Scrittura del rovescio	Brahmi
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Sri Yashaditya was among the last Hindu rulers of Sindh before the Umayyad campaigns under Muhammad bin Qasim culminated in the Arab conquest of 711–712 AD. The Type 4 classification within his damma series reflects die evolution across what was likely a compressed final phase of minting, as the kingdom's administrative machinery collapsed under military pressure. These fractional silver pieces circulated in a region about to undergo one of the more abrupt monetary transitions in early medieval South Asia — Arab dirhams and their derivatives displacing the damma tradition almost entirely within a generation.