Rana Datasatya

Rana Datasatya or possibly Ranaditya Satya on his coins, was a ruler in the area of Sindh, modern-day Pakistan, in the 5-6th centuries CE, probably circa 480 CE.[1]

Rana Datasatya 5th-6th century CE Sind mint. Portrait of the ruler on the model of Peroz I, faced by Sun symbol. On the reverse, Sasanian-style fire with legend Rannadata Satya.

His coins employ a sun symbol together with the portrait of the ruler, and have on the reverse a of fire of the type seen on Sasanian coinage, in which the traditional attendants of Sasanian coinage are replaced by a legend in Brahmi script. The legend in Brahmi reads Ranna Datasatya.[1][2]

The coins of Ranaditya Satya are considered as modelled on the coins of Peroz I, particularly from the portrait type.[1]

These coins are the latest known of the series of Sasanian-type "coinage of Sindh", which were minted in the area of Sindh in modern Pakistan, from Multan to the mouth of the Indus river, on the model the coinage of Sasanian Empire rulers Shapur II down to Peroz I, and are covering approximately the period from 325 to 480 CE.[1][3] Sasanian rulers from the reign of Shapur I did claim control of the Sindh area in their inscriptions. Shapur I installed his son Narseh as "King of the Sakas" in the areas of Eastern Iran as far as Sindh.[3]

These coins are often attributed to the Hephthalite Huns,[4] whose Alchon Huns tribe invaded India in the 5th century. According to R.C. Senior, Hunnic characteristics only appear on the later phases of the Sasanian coinage of Sindh, with the apparition of Hunnic Tamghas on the coinage, corresponding to the period when the Hephthalites took over Sasanian rule in India.[2]

References
  1. Schindel, Nikolaus; Alram, Michael; Daryaee, Touraj; Pendleton, Elizabeth (2016). The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires: adaptation and expansion. Oxbow Books. pp. 128–129. ISBN 9781785702105.
  2. Senior, Bob (1996). "Some new coins from Sind" (PDF). Oriental Numismatic Society Newsletter. 149: 6.
  3. Senior, R.C. (1991). "The Coinage of Sind from 250 AD up to the Arab Conquest" (PDF). Oriental Numsmatic Society. 129 (June–July 1991): 3–4.
  4. Friedberg, Arthur L.; Friedberg, Ira S.; Friedberg, Robert (2017). Gold Coins of the World - 9th edition: From Ancient Times to the Present. An Illustrated Standard Catlaog with Valuations. Coin & Currency Institute. p. 481. ISBN 9780871840097.
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