From personal collection
Queen Didda (979-1005 AD), wife of Raja Kshemgupta and ruler of Kashmir, grand-daughter of Bhimadeva, Shahi ruler of Kabul.
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| Copper coin of Didda around 950-8 A.D. [Although I suspect it may be of Kalsa (1063-89)] |
Because the queen was the ruler, because the coins carried her name too, the King was known with moniker, Didda-ksema. A lame queen who tortured her own grandson to retain the throne [update. 2018. No, Didda did not kill here Grandsons]. Gave away money and land to Brahmins to check dissent.
Around 1891, when Aurel Stein arrived in Kashmir in he found he found these coins “so common in the Bazars that they might be supposed never to have quite gone out of circulation.”*
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* Notes On Monetary System Of Ancient Kashmir (1899), at Archive.org
I have this one coin