Dinar - Varahan Kushanshah II - Peroz III 3rd version, Kushano-Sassanian style, unknown mint

The Kidarites displaced the Kushano-Sassanians across Bactria and the northwestern subcontinent sometime in the mid-fourth century, and their coinage reflects this transition in layers — Kushano-Sassanian types were adopted wholesale, then gradually modified. This piece belongs to that awkward middle period, still largely indistinguishable in format from its predecessors, which is precisely why attribution remains contested and the mint unidentified.

Göbl's sequencing of the Kushanshah series remains the scholarly foundation here, though the chronology of Kidarite rule is still disputed by decades in either direction.