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1 Dinar - Yinayaditya
| Issuer | Jammu and Kashmir, Tribes in |
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| Year | 450-500 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse description | Highly stylized, abstract Kushan-derived effigy of a king standing to the left, rendered in a degenerate but distinctive late post-Kushan idiom. The royal figure extends one arm forward in the act of sacrificing over a small fire altar, with attendant decorative vegetal and pellet motifs filling the field. The execution is schematic, with the figure reduced to bold, angular forms characteristic of the regional coinage of the northwestern Indian subcontinent in the 5th century A.D. The surrounding field is populated with curvilinear and floral devices derived from earlier Kushan prototypes. |
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| Reverse description | Abstract, highly stylized depiction of the goddess Ardoxsho seated facing, rendered in a degenerate post-Kushan artistic style with bold, simplified forms. The goddess is shown in a frontal posture with schematic drapery and attributes reduced to angular and curvilinear shapes. A Brahmi legend runs to the right and left of the central figure, reading 'Sri Yinaya' to the right and 'Ditya' to the left, together forming the royal name Sri Yinayaditya. The field is filled with pellet and floral ornaments consistent with the regional coinage tradition of 5th-century Kashmir and the northwestern Indian subcontinent. |
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| Reverse lettering | श्री यिनय दीत्य (Sri Yinayaditya) |
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