Æ Tetradrachm - Vima Kadphises Mono-lingual

Vima Kadphises consolidated Kushan control over northwestern India and is credited with introducing the gold dinar to the empire — making this copper issue the workhorse denomination that actually moved through markets while the prestige gold circulated among elites. The mono-lingual format, carrying only the Bactrian Greek script rather than the bilingual legends of some contemporaries, reflects a deliberate administrative narrowing as the empire tightened its bureaucratic identity under his reign.

Göbl 760 is well-attested but surfaces with notable die-axis variation, suggesting decentralized striking across multiple workshops.