1 Dinar - Pratapaditya II

The Kidarites were a nomadic people, likely of Hunnic origin, who displaced the Kushans across Bactria and northwestern India during the fourth century. Pratapaditya II remains poorly documented even by the standards of this dynasty — no contemporary textual source names him directly, and his sequence within the Kidarite ruler list is reconstructed almost entirely from coin typology. The debased gold of this issue reflects the dynasty's declining access to bullion as Sasanian pressure from the west and early Hephthalite encroachment from the north compressed their territory and trade routes through the late fifth century.