Drachm - Jivadaman I

Info and reference images below - credited to - The Silver Coinage of the Western Satraps in India, A. M. Fishman (AMF); a popular acronym for the book is SCWS

Jivadaman s/o of Damajadasri, was successor of Rudrasimha I. Two spellings of his name appear on his silver coins, Jivadamna from Mint A and Jivadamasa from Mint B, both used on his Makshatrap coins.

refer Note from Pankaj Tandon at the bottom on Mints

OP coin is from Mint B

Jivadaman I as Raja Mahakshatrap

SCWS # 12.1; 119-121 SE (197-199 CE) with Jivadaman's name spelled as Jivadamna, “Mint A”

Obv: Bust of King right with date 119 (SE) behind, corrupt Greek legend around

Rev: Rajno Mahakshatrapasa Damajadasriyaputrasa Rajno Mahakshatrapasa Jivadamna

 Sketch of reverse, legend indicating issue of Mint A, name of king spelled Jivadamna

SCWS # 12.2; 119-121 SE (197-199 CE) with Jivadaman's name spelled as Jivadamasa, “Mint B”

Obv: Bust of King right with date 119 (SE) behind, corrupt Greek legend around

Rev: Rajno Mahakshatrapasa Damajadasaputrasa Rajno Mahakshatrapasa Jivadamsa

 Sketch of reverse, legend indicating issue of Mint B, name of king spelled Jivadamsa

note from CoinIndia regarding name variations - Pankaj Tandon

In the current catalogs of Western Kshatrapa coins, such as Jha & Rajgor and Senior, Rudradāman I is shown as having three sons who ruled after him. They are called Damajadasri, Damaghsada and Rudrasimha. However, there has been a long-standing proposal (Indraji, JRAS 1890 and Rapson's BM catalogue) that the coins of "Damajadasri" and "Damaghsada" are actually issues of just one king, whose name was in reality Dāmazāda, and I believe I have confirmed this in my paper The Western Kshatrapa Dāmazāda in the 2009 issue of The Numismatic Chronicle. The theory I have offered to explain the different spellings is that they were produced at different mints. The key point is that Brahmi did not have a letter for the Persian sound z and different mints used different conventions on how to represent it.