2026-05-27 Wed

Kushan King Vima Kadphises' Copper unit weighing 17.19g, “Shiva-Nandi bilingual” type which has two distinct scripts - Bactrian Greek on Obverse with the king offering oblation in a fire altar and Kharoshthi Script in reverse surrounding lord Shiva reclining on a bull is depected.

This particular unit in Broad where in obverse the King is standing with his left hand on his waist, a trishul by his right hand with tamgha and club while in reverse Lords Shiva standing in front of Nandi holding Trident was sold at hammer price of INR 15100 in recently held auction.

Kharoshthi script was used majorly in silk routes. This script is written right to left.