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Didrachm - Datayola
| Issuer | Paratarajas dynasty (Indo-Parthian Kingdom) |
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| Year | 280-300 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a swastika symbol tilted at an angle and oriented in the clockwise (sauvastika or right-turning) direction, enclosed within a square grid or hatched frame. Brahmi legend surrounds the central device in the field, reading the ruler's name Datayola. The design is characteristic of the later Paratarajas copper issues, struck on a broad, irregular flan with typical flat, worn relief. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Paratarajas were a minor Indo-Parthian dynasty operating in the lower Indus region, issuing coinage well after the main Parthian power had collapsed under Sasanian pressure in 224 AD. Datayola is among the least documented rulers in the sequence — the dynastic king list itself remains contested, reconstructed almost entirely from coin finds rather than any surviving textual record.