The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c14.s3.t2.11

c14.s3.t2.11

The question is, therefore, difficult to decide in the present state of our knowledge. It however appears more likely that the disputed coins are the issues of Kumāragupta I. Skandagupta’s silver coins may well have imitated the altar-like object from his predecessor’s copper type, and as the reign of Kumāragupta I was separated from that of Kumāragupta II only by 16 or 17 years, it is quite possible that some of the coins of the former may have travelled to the Punjab with he Hūṇa invaders, when they were driven back to that province by the Crown-prince Skandagupta.