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Drachm - Bhimarjuna
| Issuer | Paratarajas dynasty |
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| Year | 220-235 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and coroneted bust of king Bhimarjuna facing left, rendered in the Indo-Parthian artistic tradition. The effigy displays a distinctive stepped or tiered crown atop the head, with visible drapery at the shoulder. The portrait is boldly struck in high relief against an unadorned field, characteristic of the hammered coinage of the Paratarajas rulers of northwestern India. |
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| Mintage | ND (220-235) |
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The Paratarajas were an Indo-Parthian successor dynasty operating in the lower Indus region, and Bhimarjuna's precise place in the dynastic sequence remains contested among scholars — some reading the same coin legends as evidence of co-regency, others as sequential reigns. His issues are among the scarcer Parataraja silver drachms, surviving in small numbers largely because the dynasty's reach and output were already contracting under pressure from the expanding Kushano-Sasanian sphere to the northwest.