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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 2004713, member: 26302"]I enjoy it as well sir. As to the foreheads, please remember that it was the Alchon huns, and later Nezak huns, that had the narrow heads. Their coins issued in the sixth century, has always made me wonder if they were not the true prototypes, of this coinage. They also had fire alters on the reverse with attendants. There is no "right" answer, since there is still many questions. The BM book, along with a PhD dissertation from a Russia student at a German university, (Tom Mallon had a link to it on his site before it went away),  goes through historical references to huns and independently conclude Hepthalites stayed further north. I have always been suspicious, actually, of the types attributed to them other than the direct Sassanid imitations. THe later ones that looked like Gujarat issues were thicker than their Sassanid imitations. I actually feel they are more likely Alchon or Nezak coins. The name "Hepthalite" and their reputation is just so cool WAY too many things have been attributed to them. Most things dealers label as Hepthalite are really Red Hun items, like Alchon, Kidarite, and Nezak. From all that I have read, it was the Red Huns in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and were gradually absorbed into the local population. The Hepthalites were absorbed into the Sogdian and Turkish population further north, around Sogdia, Khwarizm, Merv, etc.[/QUOTE]