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Message:: [QUOTE="THCoins, post: 2041796, member: 57364"]The Vcoins lot, all attributed as Samanta deva, seemed even to contain some early Tye#3 Spalapati Deva specimen, though not very nice. The Hindu Shahi of Kabul definitely are not Nezak !History in short (From memory, Medoraman may improve me here <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) :- The Nezak Huns took over power in the Kabul region from the Alchon Huns somewhere in the 6th century AD.- Early 7th century these were displaced by the Turk Shahi, of which Sahi Tigin is the best known.- The last of the Turk Shahi was Lagaturman. According to Arab historian Albiruni he was thrown from the throne by his Brahmin minister Kallar. Kallar was supposedly the founding father of the Hindu Kabul Shahi dynasty. This must have been around the beginning of the 9th century.- At the end of the 9th century the hindu shahi lost Kabul to the Muslim invaders and had to move their power base east, where they stayed in power for another century. Another still nice reference work on these coins is the 1976 Thesis of Abdur Rehman. I downloaded this once from the website of an Australian University. But can't find the exact web address right now.[/QUOTE]