Hunnic Obol - Sind Sind and Gujarat

The window between 712 and 717 places this issue squarely within the upheaval of the Umayyad conquest of Sind under Muhammad bin Qasim, when local coinage traditions were disrupted and surviving indigenous issues became increasingly scarce. These small silver obols descend from the degraded Hunnic coinage that had circulated through the northwestern subcontinent for generations, the designs worn down through successive copying until the original Sasanian-derived types became nearly unrecognizable.

Few issues from this precise transitional moment survive in any quantity.