Dinar - Kidara Kushana Sri Pratapaditya II

The Kidarites emerged as a distinct power in Bactria and Gandhara following the fragmentation of the main Kushana Empire, and their coinage is essentially a study in deliberate imitation collapsing into local identity over successive reigns. Sri Pratapaditya II belongs to the later sequence of Kidara rulers, operating under mounting Hephthalite pressure that would ultimately displace Kidarite authority from their Bactrian heartland entirely by the late 5th century.

Mitchiner's attribution framework for these issues remains contested — the dynastic ordering of Kidara rulers is reconstructed almost entirely from coin evidence, with no surviving king list or synchronous textual source to anchor the sequence.