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Dinar - Vira Jadamarah Imitation of Kanishka I

Issuer Kingdom of Samatata (India (ancient))
Year 250-350
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Obverse description Kushan-style royal effigy standing facing left, depicted in full figure holding a trident with a flame emanating over his shoulder, performing a sacrificial offering over an altar. The figure is rendered in the iconographic tradition of Kanishka I imitations, with the king shown in characteristic Kushan dress. A Brahmi legend identifying the ruler as Jadamun appears in the field. The entire design is enclosed within a dotted border.
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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.

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