Drachm - Toramana Type 90, Gandhara mint

Toramana is one of the few Alchon rulers attested in both numismatic and epigraphic sources simultaneously — his name appears in a Sarnath inscription datable to around 510 AD, placing him in the Gangetic heartland at a moment when the Gupta imperial structure was effectively disintegrating under Alchon pressure. The Gandhara mint had been producing debased Kushano-Sasanian derivative coinage for generations before the Alchons seized control of it; Toramana's issues represent a new administrative claim over that infrastructure rather than a continuation of it.

Göbl's EM 90 classification sits within a tightly sequenced die study. Attribution to Gandhara specifically rests on fabric and find-spot distribution rather than any explicit mint mark.