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Tetradrachm - Datayola
| Issuer | Paratarajas dynasty (Indo-Parthian Kingdom) |
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| Year | 280-300 |
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| Currency | Drachm (247 BC-224 AD) |
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| Reverse description | Central field occupied by a large swastika symbol, a common device on Paratarajas copper coinage, rendered with bold, angular strokes. The swastika is surrounded by Brahmi inscriptional legends distributed around the periphery of the flan, reading the ruler's name. The flan is irregular with areas of encrustation and green patination typical of buried copper issues from this region and period. The overall design is characteristic of the debased, provincial style of late Indo-Parthian copper issues. |
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| Mintage | ND (280-300) |
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The Paratarajas were a minor dynasty operating in what is now Balochistan and Sindh, lingering well past the collapse of Gondopharid power in the region. Datayola is among the more obscure rulers in this sequence — known almost exclusively through coinage, with no surviving inscriptions or textual references to anchor a reign narrative. Pieper 812 places this type within a late grouping, suggesting continued local minting well into the late third century even as Sasanian expansion was steadily compressing the political space available to such dynasties.