The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c11.s5.13

c11.s5.13

In variety E (Pl. IX. 5), the king is seated three-fourths to left. His left hand is resting upon the back of the couch and he is offering by his right hand a bud of lotus apparently to an object of worship in his front, which is only partially visible upon the coin. There is a spitoon below the couch. The legend, which begins at I, is incomplete; we can read *Paramabhāgavata-mahā* and can therefore conjecturally complete it with *rājādhirāja-śrī-Chandraguptaḥ*. The goddess on the reverse is also seated on a backless couch, partly resembling a wicker-stool. Her left hand is empty by her side and the right hand holds apparently a lotus bud with long stalk. There is no symbol and the legend is *Vikramādityaḥ*.