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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2004631, member: 26302"][USER=57364]@THCoins[/USER], I have never heard of a firm Hepthalite power base in Pakistan ever. The BM book, "From Persepolis to the Punjab", states clearly there is not a shred of evidence to show any Hepthalite ever stepped foot in India, (meaning modern day India and Pakistan). Maybe its semantics, Red Huns clearly were in the region, Alchon, Kidarite, and Nezak. All three of these groups issued Sassanid derivative type coinage as well. Btw, to say its unlikely that 300 years later the Chavadas would not know of the Peroz type would not be true. Its documented that as late as the 1960's these coins still circulated in Afghan bazaars. There was simply a massive coinage of these to pay tribute to the Hepthalites. So I imagine they would have been aware of the type, as well as living in the area of Red Hun imitations of it. They might have seen Hepthalite imitations as well, that is possible, or even seen what numismatists now say is a later derivative of the type that looks very much like yours attributed to Chavadas, but the Hepthalites were much further north. The Chionites, (Hepthalites), were a very distinct hunnic group who live on the NE periphery of the Sassanids. When defeated by the combined forces of the Turks and Khusro the Great, most of this group moved to Sogdia, so much so that within 100 years its nearly impossible to differentiate the Sogdian population from their Hepthalite masters.[/QUOTE]