Tetradrachm

Issuer	Kota Kula, Principality of the
Year	360-460
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Composition	Copper
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Obverse description	Bust of a standing king rendered in low relief, facing right, depicted in a schematic provincial style characteristic of post-Kushan copper coinage. The figure is shown with stylized facial features, a headdress or crown suggested by ridged lines above the head, and the body rendered in abbreviated form. The design is enclosed within a beaded border, with the irregular flan typical of hammered issues of the period.
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Reverse description	The deity Shiva depicted standing in full figure before his sacred bull Nandi, the animal shown facing left in profile. The composition follows the well-established iconographic tradition of Kushan and post-Kushan coinage of the Kota Kula principality, with both figures rendered in a bold but schematic style in low relief. The flan is irregular and the strike somewhat flat, consistent with locally produced hammered copper issues of the 5th century CE.
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Mintage	ND (360-460)
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