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Drachm - Kaniska II Imitative type
| Issuer | Kushan Empire |
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| Year | 200-300 |
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| Diameter | 16 mm |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (200-300) |
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Kanishka II ruled in the mid-third century AD during a period when Kushan authority was fragmenting under sustained Sasanian pressure from the west. The "imitative" designation here is significant — these copper drachms were produced by regional or local mints copying the royal coinage types, a practice that proliferated as centralized Kushan minting capacity declined. The prototypes they imitate were themselves debased successors to the gold-rich issues of Kanishka I's peak.
Attribution within this imitative series remains genuinely difficult, and the ACR reference is often the most specific anchor available for trade.