The Kushan kingdom was created by a group of nomads from Xinjiang-Mongolia, when driven southwest by possibly the invading Huns in the 2nd century BC, and existed for over 500 years.
Meanwhile the Kushanshah was losing Gandhara to the Kidarites, a Kushan dynasty that defeated Shapur in 357. The Kushanshah regime ended in 400 when the Epthalites occupied the Kabul valley.
Kushan Empire
Kushans, Vima Taktu (Soter Megas @ 78-130 AD ) AE tetradrachm
Taxila series.
Obv: Diademed, radiate bust right, holding scepter; tamgah behind. 6 rays above head.
Rev: Greek inscription.
Kushans, Kushano-Sassanians, etc.
EC538. Kushan Kingdom, Kujula Kadphises, ca AD1-40, AE Tetradrachm, pseudo-Hermaeus type. King bust rt./Hercules standing left holds club, MACW2844ff. I have 4, each described separately as follows:
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Kushan Kingdom of Baktria & Northern India
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Kushan empire had started its decline soon after Vasudeva's death. Vasudeva was followed by his son (?) Kanishka II who lost all the territories west of river Indus to Sassanians.
Kushans worshipping the Buddha's bowl. 2nd century Gandhara.
Kushan devotee couple, around the Buddha, Brahma and Indra.
Gold coin of Kanishka with a rough representation of the Hellenistic Buddha (c.120 AD).
Soter Megas
Kushan
tetradrachm
Symbol
Fields of coins often contain designs that are hard to classify. This symbol identified the Kushan king Vema Takha who until recently was know only by his titles Soter Megas.
In the east, great changes were taking place on the borders- the Sakas had been replaced by the Kushans, a branch of the Yueh-chi confederation of tribes (including the Huns), who proceeded, ...
Distinctive features of Kushan coins, Part I, by David Jongeward
Notes of a Jerusalem mintage Vespasian tetradrachm, by Ronn Berrol (related to the Shekel of Tyre) Jewish, Roman provincial ...
To the north, in the Punjab, the silver (later billon) and copper system of the Indo-Scythians and Indo-Parthians was replaced by the gold/copper system of the Kushan and to the south, in the Deccan, lead had predominated under the Satavahanas.
This varied pantheon no doubt reflects the diversity of faith which was professed in the different provinces of the great Kushana empire.
was divided into several kingdoms, the principal of which was the Kushan empire which was formed about A.D. 120 and extended from China to Persia.
Many other nations adopted coinage either from Chinese coinage or other influences (like Kushan coins) or independently Khmer Empire).
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