More Indian? coins - Help needed please?

Flushed with the success of my last post, as promised here are a few more coins from the Indian sub-continent that I have purchased, that I know nothing about. Can you please help me with these? (Sellers photos)

These were described (variously) as :-

1800 YEARS OLD SUNG DYNASTY - ELEPHANT FACING LEFT

And:-

1800 YEAR OLD INDIA ANCIENT SUNG DYNASTIC ELEPHANT COPPER

And:-

 

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i can't add anythign beyond what you already know TC, sunga kingdom...1st-2nd century BC. here's mine..



Sunga Kingdom, cast AE unit, 175-75 BC

O: elephant, R: Three arched hills, crescent above. 16 mm, 2.3 g. Mitchiner 4366-4370

 

Any piece of information helps, Chris. Thank-you.

(Edit: Love the coin, by the way.)

 

Two Ikshvakus PB13 elephants right and left. c.300 AD? I know nothing about these coins or kings.
http://www.tspscmaterials.com/ikshvaku-dynasty/

 

Thanks, Doug. Somehow I didn't figure you to have those coins.
I like being surprised.

 

Too high grade for me?

 

No. Not too 'high grade'. Maybe my memory is failing me, but I just don't recall any comments from you when Indian coins have appeared, before.
It is good to know that you are 'on board' with them, too.
Hopefully, I will learn from your knowledge of them, as I have done with your knowledge of LRB's, and others.

 

For these coins, I suggest you download the following book which is free:

Subrahmanyam, R., A Catalogue of the Ikshvaku Coins in the Andhra Pradesh Government Museum, The Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1979 (7.4Mb)

As for the Sungas, you will need either Mitchiner's Oriental Coins & Their Values, The Ancient and Classical World 600BC or Pieper's Ancient Indian Coins Revisted. I have both of them at home, so I can look it up for you then...

 

@Quant.Geek Great book. Thank-you.

 

I collect ancients and some medievals. Most Indian coins I have seen here have been Islamic or later. I have a few early ones but do not read Arabic and have no real intention to learn it. I have commented with some regularity even on Islamic period Jitals but just never warmed up to the text only coins. I do own the Mitchiner Non-Islamic volume but have never looked at the Western Colonies section. Also, when I say Indian, I am probably including places others may call by other names. I am not particular on where modern borders fall and consider anything south of the mountains and on the sub-continent to be Indian. Some, like the bull/horsemen, are hard to separate from places far to the north and west.