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Dinar - Khingila Gandhara mint
| Issuer | Alchon Huns |
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| Year | 440-490 |
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| Reference(s) | Göbl Kushan#EM 85 |
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| Obverse script | Bactrian |
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| Mint | Gandhara mint |
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The Alchon Huns displaced Kidarite authority across Gandhara and the northwestern Indian subcontinent during the mid-fifth century, and the Khingila coinage belongs to the earliest phase of their consolidation in the region. Khingila is the first Alchon ruler documented by name in numismatic evidence, making his issues the foundation of the entire dynastic sequence as currently understood by scholars working from Göbl's framework.
Gold dinars of this type are struck to a weight standard inherited from Kushan practice — a deliberate signal of continuity aimed at maintaining commercial confidence in recently conquered territory.