Remarkable Vima Takha Coin




Ancient India Empire: Kushan,
Ruler:
Vima Takha also known as Soter Megas,
Circulation Era:
Second half of 1st Century CE,
Denomination:
Dichalkon,
Weight:
4.78 grams,
Metal:
AE Copper,
Rarity:
Rare,
Reference:
MAC 2896var.
Obverse:
Bull standing right, illegible Greek legend around.
Reverse:
Bactrian double humped 🐫 camel standing right. Kharoshti legend: Maharajaasa Rajadirajasa Devaputrasa Vima Takha. 

P.S:
Among Kushan coin finds, there was a series of enigmatic coins that bore no name on their legends. Rather, they simply bore a Greek legend that read: BACIΛEYC BACIΛEWN CWThP MEΓAC (King of Kings, the Great Saviour). Until the early 1990's, we did not know who exactly issued these coins. Indeed it is a triumph of numismatics that most researchers believed they were the issues of some unknown ruler who ruled between Kujula Kadphises and Vima Kadphises, although some authors thought they were issued by Kujula and others thought that Vima Kadphises may have been the issuer. However, with the discovery of the Rabatak inscription, we now know that there was a ruler in between Kujula and Vima Kadphises, a ruler who was the grandfather of the great Kanishka I. There is still some dispute as to the name of this ruler, whose name has been variously read as Vima Takto and Vima Takha. Around the same time as the Rabatak inscription was discovered, a small hoard of bull and camel types was discovered which also bore the name of this ruler. We illustrate one of these coins below as the first of our list.
Vima Takha seems to have recovered at least some of Kujula's Indian territory from the Indo-Parthians. He took the Kabul valley and then expanded into northern Pakistan.
This rare coin type of Vima Takha. Mitchiner assigned the coins of this type issued by Kujula to Southern Chach. Coins of the similar type with bull & double humped Bactrian camel issued in the name of the Kushan ruler Kujula Kadphises are scarce where as the above coin of the same type in the name of Vima Takha is much rarer. Courtesy information: CoinIndia

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