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Ancient India: INDIA. Gupta Empire. Samudragupta I (ca. AD 344-378). AV dinar (22mm, 7.45 gm, 12h). Choice Fine, flan crack. ...
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INDIA. Gupta Empire. Samudragupta I (ca. AD 344-378). AV dinar (22mm, 7.45 gm, 12h). Choice Fine, flan crack. Javelin Type. Samarasatavitatavijayo jitaripurajito divam jayati (Brahmi), Samudragupta, standing facing, nimbate head left, javelin in left hand, dropping incense with right hand over lit altar to left; decorated altar surmounted by Garuda facing at left, Samudra to right / Parakramah (Brahmi), Laksmi seated in the paralambapasana posture on throne, resting feet on scattered piles of coins, diadem in right hand, cornucopia in left; tamgha in left field. TOTGE 2024, p. 251, Class II, Variety B.From A North American Collection of Coins of India.
The second Gupta Emperor, Samudragupta introduced many unique gold coin types during his long reign and litany of conquests, the most standard of which is the javelin type. The obverse legend reads, "The unconquered one who has conquered his enemies and has continuously attained victories in a hundred battles, wins heaven", and on the reverse "Parakrama". The Allahabad Pillar inscription, which contains a panegyric of Samudragupta written by the Gupta courtier Harisena, provides a pertinent supplement to this javelin type coin: "Of him who was skillfully engaged in hundreds of different battles, whose only ally was valor (parakrama) through the might of his own arm, thus has the epithet Parakrama; and his body was most charming, being covered over with the plenteous beauty of the marks of hundreds of promiscuous scars, caused by battle-axes, arrows, spikes, spears, barbed darts, swords, iron clubs, javelins for throwing, barbed arrows, span-long arrows and many other weapons."
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2025 July 28 Spotlight: A North American Collection of Coins of India Showcase Auction #61530 (go to Auction Home page)
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