YAUDHEYA bronze octodrachm 3rd century AD

DescriptionThe Yaudheya Republic was a warrior confederation in north-central India that contended with the Indo-Greeks, the Scythians, and the Kushans.The earliest ancient Indian coins were the “bent bar” punchmarked silvers of the Achaemenid Persians occupying Gandhara in northwest Pakistan. By the 3rd century BC coins were in general use in most of India and Ceylon, and in subsequent centuries struck round coins in gold, silver, and copper came into use throughout the subcontinent and beyond to Southeast Asia and Pacific islands to Java and beyond.