# Coin with Figure of an Archer (obverse), and with Figure of the Indian goddess of good fortune, Shri, seated on a lotus (reverse)

- By: anonymous
- Date: 0400
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.62
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India,_Chandragupta_II,_Gupta_Period_-_Coin_with_Figure_of_an_Archer_-_1977.62_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg)
- Rights: [CC0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/India%2C_Chandragupta_II%2C_Gupta_Period_-_Coin_with_Figure_of_an_Archer_-_1977.62_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg/1920px-India%2C_Chandragupta_II%2C_Gupta_Period_-_Coin_with_Figure_of_an_Archer_-_1977.62_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg
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The rulers of the Gupta dynasty unified northern India under native rule for the first time since the Maurya empire (323-185 bc). The Guptas named themselves after Chandragupta, the founder of the Maurya dynasty. This coin of Chandragupta II, who ruled from around ad 380 to 415, depicts a divine archer holding a bow and arrow. On the reverse is the Indian goddess of good fortune, Shri, seated on a lotus.