The Age of the Imperial Guptas c10.122

c10.122

The coinage of Skandagupta, the last great emperor of the dynasty, is still imperfectly known, as most of it still belongs to private collectors like Rai Mani Lal Nahar Bahadur and Mr. Puran Chand Nahar of Azimganj, district Murshidabad, and many others. Only two or three types of his gold coinage are known, of which the Archer type was the general issue and were coined on two different standards. At first it was issued in the old standard of 132 grains:—