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Drachm - Yaudheyas
| Issuer | Yaudheya Gana (tribal confederacy) |
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| Year | 300-340 |
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| Weight | 11.42 g |
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| Obverse lettering | Yaudheya Ganasya Jaya |
| Reverse description | A female deity or goddess depicted standing to the left, her right hand placed on her hip in a characteristic tribhanga-influenced posture. The figure is rendered in a simple but deliberate style typical of late Kushan-period tribal coinage, set within a plain field on this irregularly shaped flan. |
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The Yaudheyas were a kshatriya republican confederacy occupying the Punjab and Haryana regions, known from Panini's Ashtadhyayi and later praised in the Mahabharata as warriors who refused submission even to powerful neighbors. Their coinage, issued collectively in the name of the gana rather than any individual ruler, is one of the clearest numismatic expressions of early Indian republican governance. The copper series falls in the period when Gupta imperial expansion under Samudragupta was absorbing or subordinating precisely these kinds of tribal confederacies — the Allahabad Prasasti inscription lists the Yaudheyas among polities that offered submission.