This is not Chandragupta Maurya's coin.

Shubha Khandekar: You are right in your observation! These coins were issued during the Mauryan period and are not necessarily of Chandragupta Maurya. In fact...Dr.Ranajit Pal has this to say about Chandragupta Maurya: http://bit.ly/R6vZxu

This gold coin is from the gupta period and not from the Mauryan period.Only punchmarked silver coins are known from the Maurya times.

Thanks for your clarification Prashant Kulkarni!

Chandragupta Maurya time

this coin type is known as Changragupta- Kumaradevi type . It has been ascribed to Gupta monarch Chandragupta I and his queen Kumaradevi,the Licchhavi princess

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