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Tetradrachm - Soter Megas Kushana
| Issuer | Kushan Empire |
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| Year | 80-90 |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Bust of the king facing right, diademed and radiate with twelve rays emanating from the crown. The right hand is raised and holds an arrow. The portrait is rendered in a bold, somewhat stylized manner characteristic of Kushan coinage. A dotted border runs along the periphery of the flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (80-90) |
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The "Soter Megas" — Great Savior — title on these coins belongs to an unnamed Kushan ruler whose identity has never been conclusively established. Scholars have proposed Vima Takto, sometimes called Kujula's successor, but the question remains genuinely open after decades of numismatic argument. The anonymity itself is the historical puzzle: no other major Kushan monarch struck coins without naming himself.
Copper issues of this type circulated heavily in Bactria and the northwestern Indian subcontinent, where small-denomination exchange was essential to local market economies largely invisible in written sources.