1 Drachm - Kidarites Buddhamitra

The Kidarites emerged in Bactria during the mid-4th century AD, filling the power vacuum left by the declining Kushano-Sasanian rulers. Buddhamitra is among the better-documented Kidarite rulers through coinage alone — no contemporary literary source names him directly. His silver drachms follow the degraded Kushan weight standard rather than the heavier pre-reform issues, reflecting how thoroughly the monetary infrastructure of the region had contracted by his reign.

Göbl's Kushan sequence places this type relatively late in Kidarite production. The silver is typically debased by this period.