Ancient India Help

Here's a piece I just got from a dealer I do business with. Sait is about 1000 years old western India KSHATRAP King Portrait. don't know anything thing else. silver metal.

 

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here's 1 on Ebay like it maybe the info on this description might help you ?
link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANCIENT-IND...721?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35ec4d9781

 

here are more like yours in the ancient section of Ebay...
link: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...TRC0.H0.TRS0&_nkw=India+KSHATRAP&_sacat=11116

 

Here is a site with some information about ancient to medieval coins.

http://www.coinindia.com/

 

very impressive website thanks.

 

Your coin was issued under the reign of Rudrasena III, who ruled from ca 348-378 AD. the year is behind the head of the ruler, it probably reads 289 in the Saka era = 367AD. Legend on the reverse starts at about 10 o'clock. It reads "Rajna Mahaksatrapasa Svami Rudradamaputrasa Rajna Mahaksatrapasa Svami Rudrasena". Roughly translated "of Lord Rudrasena, son of Rudradaman".

 

This is the problem with these. For the date to be on flan, it is nearly necessary for the nose to be off. Some numbers can be read more easily than others when we only have the bottom half. When a coin of this series is 'well' centered, nothing is complete.

 

thanks for the help guys