Tetradrachm - Kujula Kadphises

Kujula Kadphises founded the Kushan Empire by unifying the five Yüezhi tribes sometime in the mid-first century AD, and his coinage reflects a ruler still working out what kind of king he wanted to be. This tetradrachm belongs to a transitional monetary tradition — Kujula's silver issues drew heavily on the dying Indo-Greek coinage of Bactria, appropriating both the weight standard and broad stylistic conventions of a political order he had just displaced. The Alram 1263 variety designation signals meaningful die differences within the type, not minor collector splitting.