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Tetradrachm

Issuer Kota Kula, Principality of the
Year 50-200
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Diameter 18 mm
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Edge Plain
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Mintage ND (50-200)
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Kota Kula was a minor Indo-Greek successor principality operating in the northwestern subcontinent during a period when copper tetradrachms were already an anomaly — the denomination had long been associated with silver in the Hellenistic tradition. Striking it in copper signals either severe metal shortages or a localized economy largely disconnected from the broader Indo-Parthian monetary network surrounding it.

Mitchell's attribution in *Ancient Coins* remains the primary reference point; the principality's rulers are poorly documented in any literary source, leaving numismatic evidence as nearly the sole record of its existence.