File talk:Mihirakula portrait from coin.jpg

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This portrait is not of Toramana but of his son Mihirakula. It is taken from the coins described by Goebl (Dokumente zur Geschichte der Iranischen Hunnen in Baktrien und Indien (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1967) as type 310 ... see Klaus Vondrovec: Coinage of the Iranian Huns and their Successors from Bactria to Gandhara (4th to 8th Century CE) (Vienna: Verlag der Ӧsterreichischen Akadamie der Wissenschaften, 2014), pages 214-215 and 378.

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