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| Kushan: Kanishka II
Gold dinar, c. 227-247 CE
Weight:8.00 gm., Diam:23 mm., Die axis:1h
King standing left, sacrificing at altar
Bactrian legend: Shaonanoshao Kanishko Koshano
( King of Kings Kanishka)/
Oesho (Shiva) standing with bull (Nandi) |
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This coin, previously unpublished, is important because it is of the style of Vasudeva I (Göbl 655 and 657) but the legend clearly indicates it was issued by Kanishka II. This shows that the area where this coin was minted, probably Peshawar, but in any case somewhere in the northwestern parts of the kingdom, was not lost to the Kushano-Sasanians by Vasudeva, as has been long thought, but by Kanishka II. It also provides a link to the so-called "Xodeshah" coins, suggesting that those coins were also issued by Kanishka II. |
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