Drachm

The Maitrakas ruled from Valabhi in Saurashtra after breaking from the Gupta empire in the late 5th century, and their coinage directly inherits degraded Gupta silver conventions — each successive issue compressing and abstracting the original types until the imagery is barely legible. By the dynasty's later centuries, the drachm had become so stylized it functioned almost as a token, its Gupta origins visible only to specialists tracing the die evolution across generations of local minting.