The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c4.22

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We desire that our Corpuses should be as much self-contained as possible and the necessity of consulting earlier books should be minimised. With this object in view, we have illustrated a few Indo-Bactrian and Kushāṇa coins in Pl. I, which are often referred to while discussing the question of the attribution of the Chandragupta-Kumāradevī type. Coins of Rudrasena III have also been illustrated in Pl. XVI, 1-2, in order to show the similarity of the silver coins of Chandragupta II with them. Some coins have also been illustrated in the enlarged size in order to facilitate their study; see Pls. IX. 9; XVII. 7.