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Drachm - Rudradaman I
| Issuer | Western Satraps (Indo-Scythian Kingdom) |
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| Year | 130-165 |
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| Reference(s) | PAIC - Pieper#3366, |
| Obverse description | Crude bust of the ruler facing right, depicted wearing a diadem and a distinctive satrapal headdress with flowing hair rendered in stylized wavy strands. The portrait, executed in a degenerate Hellenistic style characteristic of late Western Satrap coinage, shows schematized facial features with a pronounced eye rendered as a dot and a roughly modeled chin. Small pellet ornaments appear at the cheek and before the face. A garment or collar is faintly visible at the truncation below the neck. The surrounding field is plain on the hammered, irregularly shaped flan. |
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| Reverse description | Central device comprising a three-arched hill or chaitya symbol surmounted by a crescent, flanked by a solar symbol or flower to the right, all set above a horizontal line, in the standard Western Satrap reverse type derived from earlier Kshatrapa coinage. The central symbol is surrounded on all sides by a Brahmi legend in three lines arranged around the device, identifying the issuing ruler. The script, while stylized and somewhat compressed to fit the irregular flan, retains legible letterforms typical of the early centuries CE northwestern Brahmi tradition. |
| Reverse script | Brahmi |
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