Bust of Jivadaman right, with corrupted Greek legend (Indo-Greek style) // Three-arched hill or Chaitya, with river, crescent and sun, legend in Brahmi  Rājño Mahākṣatrapasa Dāmajadasaputrasa Rājño Mahākṣatrapasa Jīvadāmasa ("of Rāja Mahākṣatrapa Jīvadāman, son of Rāja Mahākṣatrapa Dāmajadaśrī"). 14mm, 1.48 grams. "Studies in the Coinage of Western Kshatrapas" #360-361; Senior ISCH 336: "The Silver Coinage of the Western Satraps in India" #12.2x

Very rare ruler. This is an ancient fouree coin - a 1800 year-old coin struck in silver-coated copper to pass as real into circulation. Very rare type for a fouree.

The Western Kshatrapas (Western Satraps) were a dynasty of Indo-Scythian rulers who controlled much of western and central India, particularly Gujarat, Malwa and parts of Rajasthan and Maharashtra, from the 1st to the early 5th century CE. Beginning with the Kshaharata rulers and followed by the long-lived Kardamaka dynasty founded by Chastana, they frequently competed with the Satavahanas and later other regional powers. Their kingdom reached its greatest extent under Mahakshatrapa Rudradaman I in the 2nd century, remembered especially for his celebrated Junagadh inscription. The Western Kshatrapas maintained a remarkably long-lived silver coinage, usually bearing the ruler's portrait and Brahmi legends, until their kingdom was conquered by the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II around the beginning of the 5th century.