Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c23.22

c23.22

§ 74. Later Great Kuṣanas. — After the death of Vāsudeva, c. 180 A.D., the gold and copper coinage of the Kuṣanas continues, but the Greek inscrr. no longer afford any information. They are mechanically repeated and rapidly become debased and illegible. Two or three isolated Nāgarī letters or monograms are usually found on the reverse of the coins. These were, no doubt, at the time, significant abbreviations, but all hope for their interpretation now lies in further discoveries of inscrr. of this period. These coins probably