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seem, however, that Sassanian coins of a considerably later 
date were also imitated by the Runas. 
(6) Subsquent to the Huna conquest of the Gupta Kingdom of East 
Malwa, Toramana caused small silver coins, hemidrachms, to 
be struck, resembling these of Budhagupta (A.D. 484-510). 
(c) Mihirakula issued copper coins of the usual Kusana type. 
The Gadhaiya Goins. 
The Gadhaiya coins of Gujarat are in all probability imitations of 
these Huna coins which themselves were imitations of the Sassanian 
coins struck in the reign of Eiruz or later.* 
The first Huna imitations—simply rude copies of the original 
Sassanian thin silver pieces—were probably made by the orders of 
Toramana. Their presence in large numbers in Marwar justifies the 
influence that the Lower Indus ranges and Western Rajputana came 
under the sway of the Hunas. 
Later imitations show “ as they recede from the prototype a 
more degraded representation of the original types and an increasing 
thickness of fabric.” Mewar, Marwar, and all Rajputana are the dis¬ 
tricts in which coins of this intermediate type are still found in large 
numbers. 
The Gadhaiya coins exhibit this degradation in stages even more 
and more advanced, till to the eye of the uninitiated they seem to 
* That the Gadhaiya coins are ultimately derived from coins of the Indo-Sassa¬ 
nian type has long been known to numismatists. Cunningham in the Eleventh 
Volume (pages 175-176) of his Archaeological Survey Reports writes : “The silver 
coins found near the ruins of Vajrasan Vihara of Viradeva are all of the class known 
“as Indo-Sassanian. Similar coins are found in Malwa and Gujarat, but they are 
“ never inscribed. The earliest coins of the class are of large size, and their imita- 
“ tion of the Sassanian money is direct and obvious. But the latter coins depart 
“ more and more from the original, so that it is not easy at first sight to trace 
“ their descent. Several specimens selected by me from the Stacy collection were 
“ published by James Prinsep in 1837 to illustrate this descent, with a graceful 
“ acknowledgment that the fact had been previously pointed out by me in Janaary, 
“ 1836 (Bengal As. Soc. Journal, VI. 295, Plate XIX, Figs. 7-14). ‘It is,* he says, 
“ * to Captain Cunningham that we are indebted for the knowledge of balusters, 
“ parallelograms, and dots being all resolvable into the same fire-altar and its at. 
“ tendants.’ In 1876, or just one generation later, the same fact was proved over 
“ again by Mr. Codrington, Secretary of the Bombay Asiatic Society. ‘ He select- 
“ ed,’ says Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji, ‘ a series of coins to show the gradual 
“ change of the Persian head on the obverse, and the fire-altar on the reverse, of 
“ the Sassanian coins into the oblong button and the series of dots and lines 
“ found on the Gadhaiya coins.’ (Bombay As. Soc. Journal, Vol. XII, 325).” 
