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Dinar - Vira Jadamarah Imitation of Kanishka I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Samatata (India (ancient)) |
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| Year | 250-350 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (250-350) |
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Samatata occupied the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta region — roughly modern Bangladesh and coastal Bengal — and its rulers issued coinage that deliberately mimicked Kushan prototypes long after Kushan political authority had retreated from the east. The Vira Jadamarah imitation series copies the weight standard and iconographic vocabulary of Kanishka I, whose original dinars date to the early 2nd century AD, suggesting these eastern kingdoms used Kushan numismatic prestige as a proxy for legitimacy in the absence of any direct political connection to Mathura or Purushapura.
The century-wide date range assigned to this type reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty — Samatata's dynastic chronology remains poorly reconstructed from epigraphic evidence alone.