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1 Dinar - Vima Kadphises
| Issuer | Kushan Empire |
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| Year | 113-127 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | BACIΛЄYC OOH MO KAΔΦICHC |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Vima Kadphises consolidated Kushan power over northwestern India and is credited with establishing gold coinage as the imperial standard, displacing the billon and copper issues that had dominated earlier Kushan output. His reign marked the period when Kushan trade networks with Rome were sufficiently active that Roman aurei were likely arriving in volume — and being melted and restruck as dinars at roughly comparable weight standards.
The KM# 698 attribution places this within the Krause-Mishler framework, though Kushan numismatics more properly follows the Göbl typology, where these issues are subdivided by nandipada placement and altar variants that affect collector value considerably.