The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c6.23

c6.23

Kumāragupta introduced silver currency also for the home provinces of the empire, and the type that was devised for this new currency was altogether free from the Kshatrapa influence. Silver currency of Kumāragupta is much more copious than that of any other Gupta emperor. He, however, paid no attention to copper currency and very few coins of his in this common man’s metal have come down to us.1