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Hunnic Obol - HAKA
| Issuer | Sindh Kingdom (Indian states) |
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| Year | 500-600 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Brahmi |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Hephthalite and associated Hunnic successor issues circulating through Sindh in the sixth century emerged from a period when the subcontinent's northwest was fragmented among competing steppe-descended polities following the collapse of Gupta imperial authority. These tiny silver fractions — struck for local exchange rather than imperial projection — often borrowed degraded fire-altar and bust iconography from Sasanian prototypes, a monetary shorthand inherited across multiple dynastic handoffs. The HAKA designation in dealer and auction literature is a conventional identifier, not an ancient inscription.