The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c9.s1.1

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The Standard type is the most popular type of Samudragupta, as will be seen by a glance at the published catalogues of the Gupta coins of most museums. The Bayana hoard had 183 coins of Samudragupta, of which as many as 136 belonged to the Standard type. The British Museum has 17 coins of this type, the Indian Museum 19, the State Museum Lucknow 29 and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 10.