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Silver Damma - Bharharsha
| Issuer | Sindh Kingdom |
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| Year | 632 |
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| Value | 1 Damma |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a schematically rendered royal figure accompanied by a Brahmi legend. The design is executed in a highly stylized, degenerate manner typical of late Sindhi coinage, with bold raised strokes forming the royal effigy. The legend, reading 'Sri Bharharsha,' is distributed around the central motif within a beaded border. The overall composition reflects the local artistic conventions of 7th-century Sindh, with the figural elements merging into the surrounding script. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Sindh Kingdom's silver dammas of this period descend from the post-Sasanian fractional coinage that circulated across the lower Indus basin following the collapse of direct Persian influence in the region. Bharharsha ruled during the final decades of the Hindu Rai dynasty — the same line that would fall to Muhammad bin Qasim's Umayyad campaign in 711–712 AD, less than a century after this coin was struck.