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Drachm - Rajarajna Mahadeva
| Issuer | Uncertain Indian mint (India (ancient)) |
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| Year | 150 BC - 100 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Brahmi |
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| Mintage | ND (150 BC - 100 BC) |
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The title *Rajarajna* — "king of kings" — appears on a small group of silver drachms attributed to the northwestern Indian subcontinent during the second century BC, a period when Indo-Greek dynastic authority was fragmenting and local rulers were asserting independence through coinage. The issuing authority behind the Mahadeva epithet remains unresolved; no dynasty has been conclusively tied to this name, and the attribution to an "uncertain mint" reflects genuine scholarly disagreement rather than incomplete cataloguing.
The ACR reference places this among a loose cluster of issues that complicate the standard Indo-Greek sequence established by Bopearachchi.