1 Drachm - Kanishka I

Kanishka I ruled a empire stretching from the Ganges plain to the Oxus and deep into Central Asia, and his copper drachms reflect that reach — the pantheon of deities depicted across his coinage draws on Bactrian Greek, Iranian, and Indic religious traditions simultaneously, an ecumenical range without parallel in ancient numismatics. The Kushans under Kanishka controlled the Silk Road's most profitable nodes, and coin production was substantial enough to fund both military campaigns and the great Buddhist councils he convened.

Mitchell's AC#3160 places this within a closely catalogued sequence where die linkages help resolve attribution disputes that plagued earlier scholarship.