Catalog
Debased Dinar - Sri Tujina
| Issuer | Tribes in Jammu and Kashmir (Kidarite Kingdom) |
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| Year | 600-700 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Ardoxsho (equated with Lakshmi) is depicted seated frontally upon a throne, rendered in the syncretic Kushano-Sasanian artistic tradition blending Zoroastrian and Hindu iconographic conventions. The enthroned deity occupies the central field in high relief, with flowing drapery and a composed, hieratic posture. A Brahmi legend reading 'Jaya' (Victory) accompanies the divine effigy in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (600-700) |
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The Kidarite kingdom — a Hunnic successor state that pushed into the northwestern subcontinent after fragmenting Kushano-Sasanian power in the fourth century — had largely collapsed as a political force well before this coin's probable striking date. What circulated under tribal authority in Kashmir during the seventh century was less a state coinage than a residual monetary habit: local chiefs perpetuating Kidarite types long after the dynasty itself had ceased to function. The debasement is telling. Gold was being stretched, not celebrated.
Sri Tujina remains unidentified in any documentary source with certainty.