Lot 95

Ancient, Panchala, Rajnyah Vijayamitra (220 AD), Copper 1/2 karshapana, 1.76 gms, 14.46 mm, Conch shell placed horizontally on platform, flanked by standards; chakra (sacred wheel) above / Brahmi legend in two lines Rajnyah Vijayamitasa single Panchala symbol at top left; Unpublished in the standard references, Extremely rare and important. with his royal title Rajnyah and his complex iconography - indicates that Panchala coinage continued well into the Kushan era and there was no long interlude during Kushan rule in northern India, published in JONS # 234, 2018, very fine, extremely rare.