The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c8.27

c8.27

The available evidence thus shows that the coins bearing the joint names and portraits of Chandragupta I and Kumāradevī were really issued when these two were ruling the Gupta empire. There is hardly any evidence to show that they were issued as commemorative medals by Samudragupta. Had he really done so, he would have taken care to put his own name or biruda somewhere on the obverse or reverse to disclose his identity.