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Drachm - Toramana one-sided, Hadda mint
| Issuer | Alchon Huns |
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| Year | 490-515 |
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| Weight | 2.26 g |
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| Obverse description | Bust of the Alchon Hun ruler Toramana facing right, rendered in a bold, stylized manner characteristic of late Kushano-Sasanian artistic tradition. The effigy displays a heavily adorned headdress with elaborate ribbons or plumes flanking the head, along with exaggerated facial features including a prominent mustache. To the right of the bust appears a small subsidiary symbol or attendant figure in the field. The overall style is schematic and vigorous, reflecting the die-cutting conventions of the Hadda mint workshop. |
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| Obverse script | Brahmi |
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Toramana's reign marked the deepest Alchon penetration into the Indian subcontinent, reaching as far as Eran in central India where an inscribed stone records his rule — one of the few contemporary epigraphic confirmations of Alchon kingship. The Hadda mint, operating in the Gandhara region near modern Jalalabad, served a frontier economy already badly disrupted by decades of Hunnic expansion. Billon coinage from this mint reflects a monetary system increasingly starved of silver.
The one-sided striking technique is a deliberate production choice, not a die accident — the blank reverse distinguishes this Hadda output from multi-mint Alchon issues catalogued nearby in Göbl's sequence.