[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) › c8.4 # The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c8.4 The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c8.4 - **Language:** English ### [c8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c8.4) The obverse shows the king and the queen facing each other, the former offering to the latter a present at which she is looking with great interest. The object offered has been differently represented on different coins. Sometimes it is a ring held between the thumb and the forefinger (Pl. I. 8), sometimes it is a \*sindūradānī\*,² with its handle grasped in the king's closed fingers and its circular or square end peeping above them (Pl. I. 11-12). In some cases, the object looks like a bangle or \*kaṭaka\*, (Pl. I. 10), but a \*kaṭaka\* cannot be held in the manner in which it is held on these coins. We have therefore to presume that what looks like a bangle is the circular end of the \*sindūradānī\*. In some cases, the end of the \*sindūradānī\* looks like a bud (Pl. I. 9), but this may be due to a defective representation of the circle at the end. - [Previous: c8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c8.3) - [Next: c8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c8.5) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.altekar-1957.c8.4) · Pramāṇa