The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c17.s1.9

c17.s1.9

It has been argued¹ that the symbols may denote the total number of coins of a particular type issued in a particular mint operation by conventional signs, a line denoting 20 and a dot one. There is no evidence for this assumption. If it were true, the Archer type of Chandragupta II, issued in mass quantity, should have had most complex symbols; but such is not the case. The symbol on the unique Chakravikrama type ⁙ ⟐ would suggest that eighty-three coins were issued in the mint operation; why should we have got only one specimen of it so far?