Hunnic Obol - Sind and Punjab

These small silvers emerge from the political wreckage left by the Hephthalite and Kidarite Hunnic incursions into the northwestern subcontinent — successor issues struck by local powers who had absorbed both the administrative habits and the iconographic vocabulary of their former overlords. The Sind and Punjab regions changed hands repeatedly across the 8th century, and coin production fragmented accordingly into a tangle of local mints operating with no central authority.

Attribution within this series remains genuinely contested among specialists. Weight standards drifted well below the theoretical obol norm across the period, making individual specimens difficult to pin to a specific issuing power without hoard provenance.