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Heavy Horseman Type Dinar - Bhanugupta Prakashaditya
| Issuer | Later Gupta dynasty (Indian Hindu Dynasties) |
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| Year | 510-525 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse lettering | Sri Prakashaditya |
| Edge | Plain |
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Bhanugupta is the only Later Gupta ruler attested in both numismatic and epigraphic sources — a rock inscription at Eran dated to 510–511 CE records him fighting a "great battle," almost certainly against the Huna invaders pressing into the Gangetic plain. The debased gold of this issue is a direct material consequence of that pressure: the fiscal strain of sustained military campaigns against the Huns eroded the metal purity that earlier Gupta dinars had maintained for well over a century.