AR drachm of Nezak Malka (before 711 AD) w/bull headdress, Kabul Valley and Zabul, Hephthalites

Bust right wearing winged bull headdress and ear-ringd NAPKI MALKA, control mark behind bust / Attendants and a fire altar, two 8-spoked sun wheels in upper fields. 26mm, 3.71 grams. Minted in the Kabul Valley and Zabul. Mitchiner ACW 1499.

Beautiful large coin, very dark toned silver.

These rare coins imitated the coinage of Peroz. The Nezak Malkas (c. AD 630-711) were a Turkic dynasty ruling the Kabul Valley and Gandhara as vassals of the Western Turk Yabghu enthroned at Qunduz. In 711, the scion of the junior branch of the Nezak dynasty in Zabulistan unseated his relative, the Nezal Malka at Kabul.