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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 4173918, member: 98035&quot;]Thanks guys!</p><p><br /></p><p>It is indeed not a field of numismatics for the faint of heart - even I periodically have to take breaks and go back to my Roman coins to keep a grip on my sanity.</p><p><br /></p><p>The interesting thing about Indo Sassanian coinage is the lack of historical anchors. I haven&#039;t gotten around to a thorough reading of Maheshwari&#039;s survey of contemporary references to coins (mostly in the form of records of taxes and wedding dowries) some 2-3 dozen types of dramma are listed, and the only one we have been able to pin to a person, place, and date are the Adivaraha types, minted by Bhoja I. We also have dramma coins of Chittaraja (imitating an early Gadhaiya at the end of 1.2 with elongated head bit detached chin), Somaladevi (imitating a late 1.4 gadhaiya), and Jaitra Simha (issued coins with battle scene reverses).</p><p><br /></p><p>There are no historical anchors whatsoever for any coin in track 2, and to my knowledge even starting with a kings list ending in Ha-, Va-, Sha- etc has led nowhere. Our only hope would be to try to draw parallels to other series based on calligraphy styles... I suspect that the Sri Dama coins may have been minted around the time of the unattributed Sri Vi drachms, based on the similarities in the letter Sri:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1074703[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1074705[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If my hunch is correct, that would place this issue to within a century of Bhoja I, e.g. 8th-9th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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