The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c11.s7.15

c11.s7.15

Arguments No. 3 and 4 do make out a plausible case in favour of attributing the present coin to Chandragupta I. There is nothing improbable in Chandragupta I, who was a Vaishṇava, having taken the title *Paramabhāgavata*. The Standard type was so popular with the numismatic tradition as developed under the later Kushāṇas, that we find it to be the predominating type with Samudragupta. If we assume that Kumāradevī predeceased her husband, it is difficult to believe that Chandragupta may not have issued some coins in the Standard type, which was then so popular.