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2. Kushan coinage - Wikipedia

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   Late Kushan ruler Shaka I (325–345). In the coinage of the North Indian and Central Asian Kushan Empire (approximately 30–375 CE), the main coins issued were gold, weighing 7.9 grams, and base metal issues of various weights between 12 g and 1.5 g. Little silver coinage was issued, but in later periods the gold used was debased with silver.

3. Kushan art - Wikipedia

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   Fortunately, several statues are dated and have inscriptions referring to the various rulers of the Kushan Empire. [64] Coinage is also very important in determining the evolution of style, as in the case of the famous "Buddha" coins of Kanishka I, which are dated to his reign (c. 127–150 CE) and already displays an accomplished form of the ...

4. Kushan Empire - Wikipedia

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   The Kushan Empire (c. 30 –c. 375 AD) [a] was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century. It spread to encompass much of what is now Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Eastern Iran and Northern India, [16] [17] [18] at least as far as Saketa and Sarnath, near Varanasi, where inscriptions have been found dating to the era of the ...

5. Joe Cribb - Wikipedia

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   Joe Cribb is a numismatist, specialising in Asian coinages, and in particular on coins of the Kushan Empire. [1] His catalogues of Chinese silver currency ingots, and of ritual coins of Southeast Asia were the first detailed works on these subjects in English. With David Jongeward he published a catalogue of Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and ...

6. Silk Road numismatics - Wikipedia

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   Silk Road numismatics includes all coinage traditions from East Asia to Europe, from earliest times. There is a great deal of merging of coinage traditions at locations on the Silk Road, and expertise in several coinage traditions is required to understand these. A notable example is the Sino-Kharoshthi coinage of Khotan, in which two coinage ...

7. Vasudeva I - Wikipedia

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   Vasudeva I was the last great Kushan emperor, and the end of his rule coincides with the invasion of the Sassanians as far as northwestern India, and the establishment of the Indo-Sassanians or Kushanshahs from around 240 CE. [4] Vasudeva I may have lost the territory of Bactria with its capital in Balkh to Ardashir I Kushanshah.