Drachm - Kaniska II Imitative type

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.