Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c23.11

c23.11

§ 69. Hima Kadphises. — The order of succession of the Indian Kuṣana monarchs from this point to the last quarter of the 2^nd cent. A.D. is certain. *Hima Kadphises* who has been identified with the Yen-kao-ching of the Chinese accounts (c. 30—78 A.D.; **Plate II, 11**) is connected with his successors as the first to issue the gold coinage, which is continued by the Guptas after the supremacy of Northern India had passed into their hands in the 4^th cent. A.D. With the exception of two or three gold coins of Eucratides (Rev. Num. 1867, p. 382; NChr. 1892, p. 37, Pl. III, 11), one of Menander (C. coll., now in B.M.) and, perhaps, one of Taxila (C. CAI. Pl. II, 18), and another coin of uncertain attribution (GARD. p. 162, Pl. XXIX, 15, v. sup. § 37 (1)), no specimens which can possibly have been struck in India, during the two centuries previous to the date of Hima Kadphises, are to be found in the collections of the present day. The large gold coinage of the Kuṣanas has been attributed to the influx of Roman gold to India at this period.