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Coin of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gupta_Empire" class="extiw" title="en:Gupta Empire">Gupta</a> king <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumara_Gupta_I" class="extiw" title="en:Kumara Gupta I">Kumara Gupta I</a>.

Obv: Bust of King Kumaragupta with headband decorated with crescents. Imitative of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greek" class="extiw" title="en:Indo-Greek">Indo-Greek</a> coinage through the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Kshatrapa" class="extiw" title="en:Western Kshatrapa">Western Kshatrapa</a>, with ruler in profile circled by a pseudo-Greek legend (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.med.unc.edu/~nupam/Sgupta1.html">Numismatic reference</a>, also: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.geocities.com/jmd_brussels/GUPE.html">[1]</a>).
Rev: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda" class="extiw" title="en:Garuda">Garuda</a> bird, circled by legend in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C4%81hm%C4%AB_script" class="extiw" title="en:Brāhmī script">Brahmi</a> "Parama-bhagavata rajadhiraja Sri Kumaragupta Mahendraditya". Actual size: 14mm in diameter, 2.0g.

Personal photograph 2005. Released under GFDL.

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current	14:40, 3 January 2017		2,822 × 1,258 (466 KB)	127.0.0.1 (talk)	Coin of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gupta_Empire" class="extiw" title="en:Gupta Empire">Gupta</a> king <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumara_Gupta_I" class="extiw" title="en:Kumara Gupta I">Kumara Gupta I</a>.<br><p><b>Obv:</b> Bust of King Kumaragupta with headband decorated with crescents. Imitative of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greek" class="extiw" title="en:Indo-Greek">Indo-Greek</a> coinage through the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Kshatrapa" class="extiw" title="en:Western Kshatrapa">Western Kshatrapa</a>, with ruler in profile circled by a pseudo-Greek legend (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.med.unc.edu/~nupam/Sgupta1.html">Numismatic reference</a>, also: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.geocities.com/jmd_brussels/GUPE.html">[1]</a>).<br><b>Rev:</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda" class="extiw" title="en:Garuda">Garuda</a> bird, circled by legend in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C4%81hm%C4%AB_script" class="extiw" title="en:Brāhmī script">Brahmi</a> <i>"Parama-bhagavata rajadhiraja Sri Kumaragupta Mahendraditya"</i>. <b>Actual size:</b> 14mm in diameter, 2.0g. </p> Personal photograph 2005. Released under GFDL.

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