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Stater - Sri Jayataka
| Issuer | Sindh Kingdom |
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| Year | 600 |
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| Value | 1 Stater |
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| Obverse description | Bust of the king facing left in Hunnic style, rendered in high relief against a flat field with a dotted border encircling the coin's periphery. The effigy displays schematized facial features characteristic of post-Kushano-Sasanian provincial coinage. A Brahmi legend surrounds the royal portrait, reading 'Sri Jayataka', identifying the issuing ruler. The die work is bold but somewhat crude, consistent with locally produced hammered electrum coinage of the early medieval Sindh region. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Sindh Kingdom occupied a precarious geographic and political position in the early medieval period — a corridor between the expanding Umayyad Caliphate pushing eastward and the established powers of the subcontinent. This stater type, attributed to the Sri Jayataka series, predates the Arab conquest of Sindh in 712 AD by roughly a century, placing it within the last phase of independent Hindu rule before Raja Dahir's defeat at the Battle of the Indus.
The electrum or debased gold composition is itself historically telling — a degraded alloy suggesting fiscal strain or disrupted access to pure gold sources, likely connected to the same regional instabilities that ultimately left Sindh vulnerable.