The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c18.s1.1
The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c18.s1.1
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Bhīmarāja is known to us from a single silver coin procured by Rivett-Carnac at Ayodhyā and published by Cunningham in his *Archaeological Survey Report*, Vol. IX., Pl. V. 16. This coin is a close copy of the Madhyadeśa type of the silver coinage of Budhagupta. The obverse gives the usual bust of the king, but the head is to left and not to right, as on the coins of Budhagupta. The reverse has the fan-tailed peacock and the usual metrical legend substituting Bhīmarāja's name for that of Budhagupta. We have so far got no evidence to identify this ruler. His time may be between 500 and 550 A. D.