| Description: Samudragupta – Ashvamedha type. A
sacrificial horse standing tied to a yupa, facing left-obverse. Queen standing to left-reverse. Brahmi legend-ashvamedhaparakramaha
Remark : Obverse - Horse standing to left before
the sacrificial post, (Trumcated) Brahmi legend-Rajadhirajah Prithvim avitva (divam jayaty aprativaryarvirah). Crescent at the back of horse/Brahmi letter ‘Si’ below the horse.
Reverse - Queen (or goddess of victory) standing on lotus, left holding fly whisk over her right shoulder in right hand. On her left a sacrificial spear Brahmi legend – Asramedhaparakramah within a beaded border.
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