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Gadahaiya Paisa Paramaras of Malwa or Silaharas of Kokan
| Issuer | Gadhaiya |
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| Year | 1200-1300 |
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| Value | 1 Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Stylized, highly degenerate bust of a king facing right, rendered in the Indo-Sassanian tradition. The effigy retains vestigial features of the original Sassanian royal portrait, including a schematic diadem or crown, though reduced to abstract linear forms through successive imitative coining. The field is flat and unadorned, consistent with the billon fabric characteristic of late Gadhaiya issues. This coin type was produced in Chaulukya territory from circa 543 AD and continued under successor dynasties including the Paramaras, Yadavas, and Silaharas across Gujarat, Malwa, Khandesh, and the Deccan. |
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| Mintage | ND (1200-1300) - 13th century; |
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The Gadhaiya (or Gadahaiya) coinage is a long-lived debased series descended ultimately from Sasanian drachms, filtered through centuries of imitation and re-imitation across western and central India. By the 13th century the prototype had degraded so thoroughly through successive copying that the original Sasanian imagery was nearly unrecognizable. The attribution to Paramaras of Malwa or Silaharas of Kokan reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty — the type circulated across overlapping territories and was struck by multiple regional authorities, making firm attribution to a single issuer difficult without die-study or find-spot evidence.