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Message:: [QUOTE="Loong Siew, post: 2346954, member: 75799"]Nice specimens [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] . Unless new evidences arise, we can only stick with current conventions.  However attribution may be logical given a few possibilities. . 1) the Rouran territory is expansive and covers parts of the area closest to Kushan sphere of influence. Just like the mongols centuries later, possibly those areas may be using/issuing these imitatives. 2) these coins are fairly abundant. This means that they were fairly prosperous or had sufficient resources to issue in such quantites and distribution.  Local factions with limited territory and resources would be rather hard pressed to issue in such abundance and consistency of design. Thus a pretty large power like the Rouran may be a possible candidate. The above are merely my personal theories. . I am no authority like Mitchiner but at least that is a starting point of reference until a definitive attribution come to the fore. Also, i have seen discussions and atttibutions from Chinese numosmatic forums that also attributed them to the Rourans.  Unless their point of reference was also through some translated work of Mitchiners', there might be other independent sources in China that shared such views. Unfortunately i have not personally gotten such a reference to corroborate that from my end.[/QUOTE]