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¼ AV Dinar - Huvishka Subsidiary Mint, Goddess Nana
| Issuer | Kushan Empire (India (ancient)) |
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| Year | 150-180 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Half-length bust of Huvishka facing left, crowned, with prominent moustache and heavy sideburns, draped in royal attire. The king holds a mace-sceptre in his raised right hand and grasps the hilt of a sword in his left hand. The effigy is rendered in the bold, frontal Kushan artistic style characteristic of the mid-second century CE. A Bactrian legend in Greek-derived script encircles the royal portrait in the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ÞANONOÞAO O-ONÞKI KOÞANO |
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Huvishka ruled the Kushan Empire at its territorial peak, and his coinage is among the most theologically diverse of the ancient world — a deliberate reflection of the empire's position at the crossroads of Hellenistic, Iranian, and Indian religious traditions. Nana, a goddess of Sogdian and Bactrian origin with roots stretching back to Mesopotamian Inanna, appears on Kushan coins as a marker of the dynasty's deep ties to the Oxus region's older religious substrate.
Göbl 165 places this fraction among subsidiary mint output, distinct from the main Kushan atelier, with minor fabric and die axis variations characteristic of provincial production.