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Rare w/complete date! Silver drachm, Visvasimha (275-282 AD), 276 AD, W. India

Rare w/complete date! Silver drachm, Visvasimha (275-282 AD), 276 AD, W. India

$ 29.56

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    Description

    Rare
    Indo-Sakas in Western India, silver drachm, Visvasimha (ca.275-282 AD) as Kshatrap, 198 SE / 276 AD - rare with a complete date!
    Size:
    15 mm, 1.9
    grams
    Bust of Visvasimha, with corrupted Greek legend (Indo-Greek style) / Three-arched hill or Chaitya, with river, crescent and sun, within legend in Brahmi Rajno Mahaksatrapasa Rudrasenaputrasa Rajna Ksatrapasa Visvasihasa. Dated to 198 CE =276 AD. "Studies in the Coinage of Western Kshatrapas" #634-638; Senior ISCH 355.20.
    Coins of Visvasimha with a complete date, like on this coin, are very rare.
    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.
    This coin is guaranteed to be authentic
    Stock# is1054