The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c10.6

c10.6

At present there are two main views about the attribution of the Kācha coins. According to one school Kācha was identical with Samudragupta; according to the other he was different from him and may have been either his brother or his son. The evidence is unfortunately not sufficiently conclusive to prove any of these views. How evenly balanced are the arguments in this controversy can be understood when we note how a scholar like V.A. Smith veered from one view to another more than once.¹