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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1694765, member: 26302"]Peroz coins countermarked of course is from his wars with the Hepthalites. After he finished defeating the Kidarites, (a war his father started), he turned his eyes on the Hepthalites. After he was defeated the second time, he had to buy his freedom with the promise of donkey loads of coins. This mintage of coins given to the Hepthalites was so massive as to still be found in Afghan bazaars for silver value as late as the 1960's. The Hepthalites countermarked many of these coins, and when they started to run out of them years later made imitations of them, since by then a Peroz dirhem was what "money" looked like. Khusro II coins being countermarked is due primarily to two reasons. One, the massive quantities of coins Khusro II put out, and the fact that by then the Sassanids and Turks had broken the power of the Hepthalites and taken away their major cities. They still controlled areas, and had a population base, but did not any longer have major cities in which to support their own mint. Therefor they countermarked some of the numerous Khuso II coins for their own use.[/QUOTE]