Drachm - Toramana one-sided, Hadda mint

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.