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Drachm - Kidara in the name of Wahram I Kushanshah)
| Issuer | Kidarite Kingdom |
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| Year | 350-365 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Bactrian |
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| Reverse script | Bactrian |
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The Kidarites emerged as a distinct dynastic power in Bactria during the mid-fourth century, likely displacing or absorbing the remnant Kushano-Sasanian administration. This coin issues in the name of Wahram I — a Sasanian royal name deliberately adopted — signals the Kidarite strategy of projecting legitimacy through borrowed imperial nomenclature rather than erasure of the preceding order. Göbl's classification of this type within the Hun sequence remains contested; some scholars position the Kidarites as an early wave of Hunnic migration, others as a separate Central Asian group entirely distinct from the Chionites pressing from the north.