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1 Dinar - Huvishka
| Issuer | Kushan Empire |
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| Year | 152-192 |
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| Weight | 7.99 g |
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| Reverse script | Bactrian (Greek alphabet) |
| Reverse lettering | hPAKILO |
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Huvishka ruled the Kushan Empire at its administrative and territorial peak, a period when the dynasty controlled trade routes connecting Rome, Parthia, China, and India simultaneously. The sheer diversity of deities appearing across his coinage — Iranian, Indian, and Hellenistic — reflects a deliberate policy of religious pluralism, almost certainly intended to consolidate loyalty across an ethnically fragmented empire. No other Kushan ruler produced anything close to the same range of divine types.
Göbl 305A/269 is among the more precisely attributed varieties in a notoriously complex series where die alignment and deity selection drive the classification.