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1 Dinar - Kanishka I
| Issuer | Kushan Empire |
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| Year | 127-150 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar (20) |
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| Obverse lettering | ÞAO NANO ÞAO KANHÞKI KOÞANO |
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| Reverse lettering | OPΛAΓNO |
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Kanishka I launched a regnal era still debated by scholars — his accession date, somewhere in the late first or early second century AD, has generated more academic argument than almost any other question in South Asian numismatic history. The Kushan gold dinar under his rule was deliberately calibrated to the Roman aureus in weight, a policy choice that facilitated trade across the routes connecting Rome, Parthia, and the Ganges plain simultaneously. Göbl 76 places this issue among the earlier die groupings of his reign, before the series diversifies significantly in its iconographic program.