Hasti Dramma - Siddhraj Jayasimha Chalukyas of Gujarat

Jayasimha Siddharaja ruled the Chaulukya (Solanki) dynasty for half a century, presiding over what historians of medieval Gujarat consider the kingdom's political and cultural apex. His patronage of the scholar Hemachandra and his campaigns against the Paramaras and Chaulukyas of Tripuri defined a reign of unusual length and ambition. These tiny silver drammas — the hasti type named for the elephant motif — were the workhorse coinage of daily commerce in Anhilwara, struck in enormous quantities throughout his long rule, which makes dating individual specimens to a specific decade nearly impossible.