Indo-Sakas in Western India, silver drachm, Visvasena (292-304 AD) as Kshatrap, 295 AD - very rare type without the sun symbol!

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Bust of Visvasena right, with corrupted Greek legend (Indo-Greek style), date in Brahmi numerals behind (217 Saka Era = 295 AD) / Three-arched hill or Chaitya, with river, crescents (NO sun-symbol), within legend in Brahmi Rajno Mahaksatrapasa Bhartrdamaputrasa Rajno Ksatrapasa Visvasenasa. 15mm, 2.01 grams. "Studies in the Coinage of Western Kshatrapas" #-; Senior -.

This type without the sun symbol is COMPLETELY unpublished, though a few pieces (all dating to 217 SE, as this coin) are reported to reside in private collections. Extremely rare, with only 2 or 3 pieces known!

Coins of Bhartrdaman as Mahaks-.atrapa in new style showing only the two moon symbols on the reverse were only recently identified and at yet to be published elsewhere. The coins have the normal and expected moon symbol in the left field, while the right field is black. The reason for such omission is unknown, but it probably did not happen because of the lack of space, since the reverse on these coins is not anymore crowded than the reverse of the normal issues.The Western Kshatrapas, or 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.


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