[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957) › c19.155 # The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c19.155 The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c19.155 - **Language:** English ### [c19.155](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.155) On p. 264, we have described the solitary gold coin of Ghaṭo(tkachagupta) in the Leningrad Museum. At that time the weight of the coin could not be ascertained and given. The First Secretary of the Embassy of the U.S.S.R., New Delhi, kindly made the necessary enquiry and informed Mr. P. L. Gupta that the weight of the coin is 9.16 grammes or 141.22 grains. This weight shows that its issuer could not have been the father of Chandragupta I. He must have flourished sometime after 450 A. D., when the issue of heavy weight coins was started by Skandagupta. - [Previous: c19.154](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.154) - [Next: c19.156](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.156) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.155](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c19.155) · Pramāṇa