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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3238387, member: 98035&quot;]Thanks for thinking of me!</p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed Indian from the Gujarat area.</p><p><br /></p><p>First is Western Kshatrapas, Vijayasena, SE160 = 238 AD. </p><p><a href="http://coinindia.com/galleries-vijayasena.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinindia.com/galleries-vijayasena.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinindia.com/galleries-vijayasena.html</a></p><p>You can usually tell his coins both by the easy to recognize name which looks about like ΔεωΝΙΝ, and because he was the only one who had celatores who could fit the whole legend on the reverse. Western Kshatrapas were the last holdout of the Scythian invaders, and fell to the Guptas in the late 400s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second is a few centuries later; anonymous issue of the Maitraka dynasty, c.6th-8th century. They were originally a tributary state of the Guptas, but asserted their indepenfence when the Guptas broke up in the 550s. All of their coins cite the founder of their dynasty, Bhatarka.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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