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Dinar - Adomano Hindu-Kush mint
| Issuer | Alchon Huns |
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| Year | 450-480 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | The king is depicted standing in left profile, his robed figure rendered in the Kushano-Sasanian artistic tradition. He extends his right hand over a fire altar in a sacrificial gesture, while his left hand grasps a filleted trident — an emblem of Shaivite religious authority. A second filleted trident rises prominently in the left field, and the dynastic tamgha symbol appears in the right field. The flan is characteristically broad and irregular, with bold if somewhat crude relief typical of Alchon Hun coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Bactrian |
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The Alchon Huns began displacing Kidarite authority in Bactria and the Hindu Kush region during the mid-fifth century, and coins of this type mark that transitional period with unusual directness — the Adomano mint attribution placing production squarely in contested high-altitude territory that changed hands repeatedly between competing steppe federations. Göbl's classification of this issue within his Kushano-Ephtalite emission sequence reflects ongoing scholarly debate about where Alchon authority ends and Kidarite or Hephthalite overlap begins.