Dinar - Shri Sahi

The Kidarites were a nomadic people — likely of Hunnic origin — who displaced the Kushans across Bactria and northwestern India during the fourth century, establishing a kingdom that straddled the critical trade routes connecting the Roman world to China. Their coinage is a direct record of that inheritance: they adopted Kushan monetary conventions wholesale, including the heavy gold dinar weight standard, because the mercantile networks they now controlled demanded continuity.

Attribution of specific issues to the Kidarites versus late Kushans remains genuinely contested among specialists, with much of the working classification still resting on Robert Göbl's mid-twentieth century typology.