Debased Dinar - Vinayaditya

The Kidarites, a nomadic people who carved a kingdom from the wreckage of Kushan territories in Bactria and the Punjab, funded their military state partly through systematic debasement of the gold coinage they inherited from Kushan tradition. By the mid-fifth century, as Hephthalite pressure from the north increasingly destabilized Kidarite control, the gold content of these dinars dropped sharply — the weight was maintained to preserve the appearance of value while the alloy told a different story.

Vinayaditya remains poorly documented as a ruler, known almost entirely through his coinage rather than any textual source.