The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c17.s1.16

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Out of the seven varieties of the Horseman type, only two, class II, vars. B and D show the symbol. It is uniformly one and the same in class II, var. B, viz. ☩; in class II, var. D we have usually 🜴. The variety A of the class II of the Lion-slayer type of this ruler with the legend Sākṣādiva narasiṁhaḥ has one and the same symbol 屮. The coins of the rare types of Kumāragupta I have particular symbols of their own. The Swordsman type has the symbol 🜳 and the Rhinoceros-slayer type 🜲. But these symbols cannot be described as being specially associated with particular types; for the symbol 🜳 occurs not only on the Swordsman type, but also on the Chhatra and Apratigha types. The coins of Skandagupta usually show one of the two symbols, 屮 and 🜲. It is the former of these symbols which alone appears on the coins of Ghaṭotkachagupta, Budhagupta and Kumāragupta II. The coins of Narasiṁhagupta have also this symbol.