Pehlavi inscription: AUHRaMaZDI MaLKA (?), Bust of the king right, wearing a spiky crown / Pehlavi inscription: BMaZDISN BaGI ARTaHShaTR RaBI KUShAN MaLKA, Mithra standing under a canopy. 19mm, 4.00 grams. Harid mint (?). Pieper-1314, MACW-1264. SKU X3582-7837

"Kushano-Sasanian" is a historiographic term used by modern scholars when referring to a dynasty of monarchs who supplanted the Kushan Empire in the Tukharistan region, and ultimately in both Kabulistan and Gandhara as well. According to the historian Khodadad Rezakhani, the dynasty was seemingly a young branch of the House of Sasan, and perhaps a offspring of one of the Sasanian King of Kings. It was founded in 233 by Ardashir I Kushanshah after his appointment by the first Sasanian King of Kings, Ardashir I (r. 224–242). The Kushano-Sasanians, in the same manner as the Kushans, used the title of Kushanshah ("Kushan King"), thus demonstrating a continuum with their predecessors.