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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3296441, member: 98035&quot;][USER=93416]@EWC3[/USER] , regarding the Indo Sassanian coinage, there are many surviving inscriptions referring to various types of dramma, but the only one to be assigned to a physical, extant coin is the Adivaraha drachm of Bhoja I. I flipped back through Maheshwari last night, and the dated inscriptions mentioning the dramma start around 500 and stop around 1350.</p><p><br /></p><p>From my experience, the main Gadhaiya track seems to start at maybe a standard of 4.05g at its inception and drifts upward to maybe 4.3g, when it suddenly jumps to ~4.5g when the engravers dropped the line through the pupil of the portrait - this is also around the time that the purity drops from 80-90% to under 70%, then spirals down to about 15% - Maheshwari equates these last issues with the Inscriptional &quot;Paruttha Dramma&quot; given as being worth 1/8 of a regular dramma.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, the Sri Ha coinage varies so much that Maheshwari argues it to be a fiat currency, reckoned by count irrespective of weight or silver content.</p><p><br /></p><p>The final type, which developed from &quot;Sri Ma&quot; to the Adivaraha dramma stuck to a lower weight standard, finally settling at about 3.6g.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t doubt that the word Dam is derived from Drachm, just like Dirham is - however, I reject the idea that a ~20g copper coin can be a continuation of a ~4.5g billon coin that ceased production about 200 years prior (from the end of the Gadhaiya to the time of Sher Shah) simply because it is named as such. Same reason I reject the claim that the Penny/Pfennig/Denier is a Denarius simply because it was named as such.</p><p><br /></p><p>But how rude of me, I forgot to post coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>Still working on my ~400 coin backlog, so bear with me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gurjjar-minted Gadhaiya predecessors</p><p>[ATTACH=full]872624[/ATTACH] </p><p>4.15g</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]872625[/ATTACH] </p><p>3.91g</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]872626[/ATTACH] </p><p>3.92g</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]872627[/ATTACH] </p><p>3.98g</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Chavada&quot; type (haven&#039;t taken weights yet)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]872630[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]872631[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]872632[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]872633[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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