Silver Unit - Endubis

Endubis is the earliest named Aksumite ruler known from coinage — his issues represent the introduction of a fully indigenous monetary system into the Horn of Africa, almost certainly modeled on late Roman numismatic conventions encountered through Red Sea trade networks. Aksum at this period was extracting and exporting ivory, gold, and tortoiseshell through the port of Adulis, and coinage served the practical demands of that commerce rather than any purely symbolic function.

The silver series is considerably scarcer than the gold, a pattern that holds across most early Aksumite reigns.