The Coinage of the Gupta Empire and its Imitations c9.s2.4

c9.s2.4

*Ma* of the eastern variety is more common on this type than that of the western one. This may suggest that the type was more common in the eastern provinces, where the influence of the Kushāṇa numismatic tradition was naturally not very strong. But we cannot draw any safe conclusions from the form of *ma*, for we find both eastern and western forms of this letter on the same side of the same coin in some cases; see Pl. I. 15.