The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c9.s1.17

c9.s1.17

The only plausible explanation that we can offer of this type is that it may have been issued by some Kushāṇa feudatory of Samudragupta. The Allahabad inscription describes how the Śaka and Kushāṇa chiefs attended upon him and prayed for charters confirming them in their dominions. One of them may have decided to show his loyalty by issuing coins with the name of the emperor in the place of honour and his own name or the name of his tribe outside the spear.