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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;THCoins, post: 2004583, member: 57364&quot;]IT is good to see that many people here have at least one specimen of this series fitting with its historical importance !</p><p>[USER=26302]@medoraman[/USER]: i have read a lot about the history of the region, including the central asian territory. But unfortunately knowledge is stil very fragmentary.</p><p>However, i disagree with you on the probable importance of the hunnic imitations. I think these are very likely intermediates as the ancestors of the Chavada designs.</p><p>Most important reason is time and place: The Chavadas ruled northern Gujarat from about 760 AD.</p><p>At the time Peroz I died, this region was still in the firm hands of the Gupta dynasty. With the decline of the Gupta the Maitraka of Valabhi rose in Southern Gujarat. For several hundred years there was a firm hephthalite power base to the west of Gujarat in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. In the area between were the Kidarites who were under continuous Hepthalite pressure.</p><p>I believe conditions were favourable for a silver currency flow to northern Gujarat of imitation Peroz types during this long period. The likeliness of some Hepthalite and Gujarat specimen only supports this. It seems less probable the Gujaratis encountered the original Peroz I coinage and independently started making their own version a few hundred years later.</p><p>A pity that 50 years from now i probably won&#039;t be around any more to hear the final solution..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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