[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) › c8.2 # The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c8.2 The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c8.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c8.2) Chandragupta I issued coins only in the King-and-the-Queen type and they are not numerous. Their recorded findspots are Mathurā, Ayodhyā, Lucknow, Sitapur, Tanda, Ghazipur and Banaras in U. P. and Bayana in the Bharatpur state. It is rather strange that no finds of his coins should so far have been recorded in Bihar, the home province of the Gupta empire. His coins vary in diameter from .74" to .85" and in weight from 113 to 123.8 grains. The average weight of good specimens is about 120 grains. There are ten coins of this type in the Bayana hoard, nine in the British Museum, four in the State Museum, Lucknow, and six in the Indian Museum, Calcutta.¹ - [Previous: c7.s1.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c7.s1.29) - [Next: c8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c8.3) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c8.2) · Pramāṇa