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Drachm - Napki Malka Gandhara mint
| Issuer | Hephthalite Empire |
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| Year | 475-576 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Pahlavi |
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| Reverse description | A stepped Zoroastrian fire altar occupies the central field, depicted in a schematic, tiered architectural form with flames rising from the altar top. Two attendants or fire-priests stand facing inward on either side of the altar, each rendered in a highly stylized and abstracted manner consistent with late Hephthalite die-cutting conventions. The composition is enclosed within a beaded border. The entire design derives from the standard Sasanian reverse type but shows considerable stylistic degeneration characteristic of provincial and successor-state imitative coinage of the 5th–6th centuries AD. |
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| Mintage | ND (475-576) - Gandhara mint |
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