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Ancient: Kushan Kingdom c.1st-2nd Centuries AD AE Tetradrachm NGC Ancients
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Description
Ancient: Kushan Kingdom c.1st-2nd Centuries AD AE Tetradrachm NGC Ancients
Condition
NGC Ancients
Provenance
The Kushan Empire (c. 30–c. 375 AD) 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, at least as far as Saketa and Sarnath, near Varanasi, where inscriptions have been found dating to the era of the Kushan emperor Kanishka the Great.
Literature
"Soter Megas" Issue.
half-bust/king on horse
