INDIA MEDIEVAL,KABUL SHAHI NORTH DYNASTIES 1 JITAL SILVER (750-900 CE)SRI SPALAP

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INDIA MEDIEVAL,KABUL SHAHI NORTH DYNASTIES 1 JITAL SILVER (750-900 CE)SRI SPALAPATI DEVA,SALAPATI DEVA WAS A SHAHI KING OF KABUL AND GANDHARA REGION IN THE MEDIEVAL ERA,STYLIZED HORSEMAN RIGHT HOLDING SPEAR,STYLIZED BRAHMA BULL LEFT,LEGEND ABOVE
WEIGHT:3.3g
SIZE:18mm
METAL:SILVER
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Comments:Hindu Shahi dynasty was a Buddhist dynasty in the north of India and the south of Afghanistan.Type Bull & Horseman.About 750 CE the Shahi dynasty issued coins showing a Brahma bull on one side and a horseman on the other side. Over the next 500 years many rulers in an area encompassing what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northwest India issued coins based on this design.Spalapati Deva was a shahi king of Kabul and Gandhara region in the medieval era.