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Silver coin of Chandragupta II the Great, minted in his Western territories, in the style of the Western Satraps. Obv: Bust of king, with corrupted Greek legend " OOIHU ".< ref >" Evidence of the conquest of Saurashtra ( region ) | Saurastra during the reign of Chandragupta II is to be seen in his rare silver coins which are more directly imitated from those of the Western Satraps ... they retain some traces of the old inscriptions in Greek characters, while on the reverse, they substitute the Gupta type ( a peacock ) for the chaitya with crescent and star.
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Silver and Chandragupta
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Silver coin of Chandragupta II, minted in his Western territories, in the style of the Western Satraps. Obv: Bust of king, with corrupted Greek legend " OOIHU ". Rev: Legend in Brahmi, " Chandragupta Vikramaditya, King of Kings, and a devotee of Vishnu ", around a peacock.
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Silver and II
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