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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Kota Kula, Principality of the |
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| 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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| Edge | Plain |
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Kota Kula was among the small Indo-Greek successor principalities operating in the Kabul Valley and adjacent regions during the mid-first millennium, issuing coinage that blended Hellenistic monetary conventions with local iconographic and metallurgical traditions. The designation "tetradrachm" here reflects inherited nomenclature rather than any surviving connection to silver Attic weight standards — by this period, the term had become functionally detached from its original meaning across much of the region.