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Message:: [QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3247763, member: 74834"]For me, it all started with the Sasanians, and it continued with the post-Sassanians ending in the Gadhaiya paisas. Where it comes from: king Peroz was imprisoned by the Huns and freed after paying a huge sum of silver drachms, thirty mule loads of them. This was the coin that started the series of imitations, the stream of ever evolving types that was to flow for 700 or 800 years.  Peroz (457-484), AR drachm, mint ST. 27 mm, 4.2 gr. Bought it from Parscoins, because I wanted a splendid example. [ATTACH=full]851484[/ATTACH] Here's one of the early Hunnic imitations from what's now Afghanistan. Billon drachm, Peroz imitation, (474-561). With addition of tamgas S 59 & S 60. Fire altar with attendants, Bactrian script in obverse margin. Edges chipped because of countermarking. R. Tye, 29.11.86 ‘Countermark of helmeted head on reverse’, hard to spot. 30 mm, 2.79 gr. Vondrovec type 289; MAC 1469; Zeno 199534. [ATTACH=full]851489[/ATTACH] The following coin was also issued by the (Nezak) Huns after they were driven from India and resettled in (now) Afghanistan. Nezak crossover AE, return from India, after 565 AD. Obv. crowned head t.r., small crown with spikes. Text to the right. Rev. Abstracted fire altar with four distinct dots over it. Greenish on tan color. Splits on side. [ATTACH=full]851490[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]