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Drachm - Deva Shahi Khingila bilingual type, India territory mint
| Issuer | Alchon Huns |
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| Year | 470-480 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Rough |
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| Mintage | ND (470-480) |
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The Alchon Huns under Khingila pushed into the Indian subcontinent in the second half of the 5th century, displacing the last Gupta-affiliated rulers from the Gandharan and Punjab regions. This bilingual type — combining Bactrian script with Brahmi — reflects the administrative pragmatism of a conquering group that needed its coinage legible to subject populations still operating within Indo-Iranian scribal traditions.
Göbl's EM 80-81 places this issue at the earliest phase of consolidated Alchon rule in the subcontinent, before later types abandoned the bilingual format entirely.