The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c13.4

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c13.4

Only about half a dozen copper coins of Kumāragupta are so far known.¹ It appears that he gave up the experiment of copper coinage of his father as not worth the trouble. Cowries and barter system were quite sufficient for those transactions for which we use the copper currency in the modern age.

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