Drachm - Damajadasri I/ Damazada II

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

Damajadasri was successor of Rudradaman. Two spellings of his name appear on his silver coins, Damajadasri from Mint A and Damaghasada from Mint B, both used on his Kshatrap and Makshatrap coins.

this catalog entry is for coins from “Mint B” - refer Note from Pankaj Tandon at the bottom

Damajadasri I as Kshatrap

OP Coin

SCWS #10.1 (before c.87 SE/ before ca.165 AD) Mint B    

Obv: Bust of King with corrupt Greek legend around

Rev: Rajno Mahaksatrapasa Rudradamaputrasa Rajno Ksatrapasa DamaGhsaDasa

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

SCWS #10.2 (ca.87-99 SE/ ca.165-177 AD) Mint B

Obv: Bust of King with corrupt Greek legend around

Rev: Rajno Mahaksatrapasa Rudradamaputrasa Rajno Mahaksatrapasa DamaGhsaDasa

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

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.