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Tetradrachm - Huviska
| Issuer | Kushan Empire |
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| Year | 155-190 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Bactrian |
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| Reverse script | Bactrian |
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Huvishka's reign produced an unusually diverse divine pantheon on his coinage — over thirty different deities appear across his issues, drawn from Hellenistic, Iranian, and Indian traditions simultaneously. This eclecticism was deliberate policy, not artistic indulgence; the Kushans governed a trade corridor stretching from Bactria to the Gangetic plain, and the coinage functioned as a kind of theological diplomacy across incompatible religious communities.
Göbl 855 sits within the middle phase of Huvishka's bronze production, after the gold-to-copper debasement shift that increasingly pushed bronze into everyday transaction use across the empire's market towns.