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Jital - 'Bronze' - Vakka Deva - Shahi Kingdom of Ohind and Kabul - 750-1000 AD

Issuer Kabul Shahi Dynasties
Year 870-1000
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Weight 2.15 g
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Obverse lettering श्री वक्क देव
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Edge Plain
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The Kabul Shahis ruled a strategically critical buffer zone between the expanding Abbasid Caliphate to the west and the Gurjara-Pratihara empire to the east, and their coinage reflects that pressure — issues became increasingly debased and irregular as the dynasty was pushed progressively eastward through the ninth and tenth centuries. Vakka Deva is among the lesser-documented rulers of this sequence, and attributions within the Tye classification remain provisional for several types in this range.

The kingdom effectively ended with Mahmud of Ghazni's campaigns in the early eleventh century.

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