Catalog
Debased Dinar - Vigrahatunga
| Issuer | Kidarite Kingdom |
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| Year | 600-800 |
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| Currency | Drachm (380-477) |
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| Reverse description | Highly abstracted representation of the goddess Ardoksho, the Kushano-Sasanian deity of prosperity, rendered in a schematised Kidarite style that reduces the figure to near-geometric forms. The deity is surrounded by decorative devices and symbolic ornaments in the field, consistent with late Kidarite artistic conventions. A Brahmi legend in the Kidara style encircles the central design, reading Sri Vigraha Tunga, identifying the issuing ruler. The overall composition reflects the progressive stylisation and debasement characteristic of post-Kidarite emissions of the 7th to 9th centuries. |
| Reverse script | Brahmi |
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| Edge | Plain |
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