The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c11.s4.2

c11.s4.2

¹ The view advocated by Thomas that the Chhatra type coins should be attributed to Chandragupta I (*J. R. A. S.*, 1893, p. 92) is untenable. It is true that the obverse motif of king offering oblation on altar recalls the motif on the Late Kushāṇa coins from where it is borrowed. But this motif persisted down to the regin of Kumāragupta I, on whose Swordsman type it is seen to occur. The *biruda* on the reverse, *Vikramāditya*, conclusively shows that the Chhatra type was issued by Chandragupta II; his grand-father is not known to have adopted this title.