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Tetradrachm - Huviska Kushana
| Issuer | Kushan Empire |
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| Year | 150-191 |
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| Diameter | 24 mm |
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| Obverse script | Bactrian |
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| Reverse description | Reverse features a standing deity rendered in the syncretic Kushan artistic tradition, identified as Athro (the Zoroastrian fire deity), depicted in frontal or three-quarter stance with characteristic divine attributes. The figure is shown in low relief on a heavily patinated copper flan, with details partially obscured by wear and encrustation. The Bactrian legend AΘÞO appears in the field, identifying the deity by name. The reverse design exemplifies the Kushan Empire's fusion of Iranian, Hellenistic, and Indian religious iconography. The overall execution is consistent with the hammered coinage produced under Huvishka's long reign. |
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Huvishka's reign is one of the longest and most numismatically complex in Kushan history, producing an extraordinary range of divine types on the reverse — over two dozen distinct deities drawn from the Iranian, Indian, and Hellenistic pantheons appear across his copper coinage. This eclecticism wasn't decorative tolerance; it reflected the administrative reality of ruling a multi-ethnic empire stretching from Bactria into the Gangetic plain. Mitchiner's AC#3236 sits within a series where die varieties are numerous and attribution can shift depending on which deity type the reverse carries.