Five different punchmarks on obverse / small banker's marks on reverse. 16mm, 3.26 grams. Mathura mint. Gupta/Hardaker 499; MACW 4319-4321.

The Sunga dynasty was established in 185 BCE, about 50 years after Ashoka's death, when the king Brhadrata, the last of the Mauryan rulers, was brutally murdered by the then commander-in-chief of the Mauryan armed forces, Pusyamitra Sunga, while he was taking the Guard of Honour of his forces. Pusyamitra Sunga then ascended the throne.