Drachm

The Maitrakas ruled from Valabhi in Saurashtra — modern Gujarat — after breaking from the Gupta empire in the late fifth century and establishing one of western India's more durable post-Gupta regional powers. Their silver drachms are direct descendants of the degraded Gupta coinage tradition, compressed through three centuries of local minting into increasingly schematic forms that grew more abstract with each generation of dies.

Valabhi itself was sacked by Arab forces around 775 AD, effectively ending Maitraka power and cutting the series short.