
Bust of Rudrasena, with corrupted Greek legend (Indo-Greek style), date behind (127 SE = 205 AD) / Three-arched hill or Chaitya, with river, crescent and sun, within legend in Brahmi Rajno Mahaksatrapasa Rudrasihaputrasa Rajno Mahaksatrapasa Rudrasenasa. 15mm, 2.14 grams. Mint B. Fishman "The Silver Coinage of the Western Satraps" # 13.4.127.
Rated "Extremely Rare" in Fishman, but it is not as rare as indicated.
Western Satraps, (35-405 CE) were Saka rulers of the western and central part of India (Saurashtra and Malwa: modern Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states). They were contemporaneous with the Kushans who ruled the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, and the Satavahana (Andhra) who ruled in Central India.