1/2 Drachm - Anonymous Ruler Tokhara Yabghus

The Tokhara Yabghus governed Tokharistan — roughly modern northern Afghanistan and southern Tajikistan — as nominal vassals of the Western Türk Qaghanate following the collapse of Hephthalite power in the 560s. Anonymous issues of this type reflect a deliberate administrative practice: the yabghu's authority was real enough locally, but coinage attribution to a named ruler was politically complicated within a Türkic tributary system where ultimate sovereignty was contested. Bronze fractional denominations circulated primarily in bazaar economies along the upper Oxus.