Love my Indian homies...

That's a fascinating coin that you are using for your avatar or icon. What is it? Do you own that coin?

 

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Another cool group of coins Big John..i do have a chicken coin i got from club member's wife and she had a bag of them. which i picked through..

 

Mitchiner separates these late birds into several groups by weight, fineness and size. I have no idea whether his divisions are considered valid but I suppose it would be best to give data when posting these.

 

Mine is 1.7g, 15mm. If anyone does have a catalog number for it, I'd be grateful.

 

Cool OP-bunch, JA ... congrats

Sweet elephant(s) ... and there are a couple of other cool examples in the photo (I'm sure that you'll be able to unload those babies, ASAP)

=> total thumbs-up

 

Here's one of the drachms of Apollodotus II. I'll buy these coins if I can honestly say, "I've seen much worse." They are very fine and soft, so usually have quite a bit of circulation wear. If a coin is centered enough to catch all the Greek and Kharosthi lettering, if a bit clipped, and the surfaces are halfway decent, in my book it's a keeper...

 

My avatar is a Kushano-Sassanian coin of Hormazd II KushanShah (ca 300 AD). It is mine indeed. Glad you like it !

 

For what its worth this is a Satavahana rare portrait coin of Sri Yajna Satakarni. (The dude that issued that elephant)

 

Working only with Mitchiner, I'd call it a Mitchiner 3032-3033 which he lists as "more formalized design with the body shown as three horizontal lines: higher relief (Panish 1e-f)".
Panish, C. K. The Coins of North Cambodia, ANS. Museum Notes 20, 1975 161-174

The immediate question is whether the bag included a variation so you might want to revisit for a set.

 

This little chunk of silver no longer belongs to me but I was charmed by its thick planchet (4mm), high relief, and high fineness. It comes from the Gujarat Sultanate, minted under Nasir al-din Mahmud Shah III, 1537-1553.



I haven't learned to read Arabic beyond recognizing a few letters, but I did find the coin on Numista here. I'm not sure if I have the obverse and reverse pictured on the correct sides. The obverse has the al-wathiq invocation of Allah, "He who trusts in Allah, the most generous, the protector of the world and the faith, father of victory," referring to the king and his titles on the reverse, "Mahmud shah bin latif shah al-sultan."

So in Western coins, we usually call the obverse the side with the ruler on it. Is it opposite in Islamic coins?

 

Obverse/Reverse is in the eyes of the author. It all depends and I don't think there is a good consensus. I have seen some Western coins with the ruler in the "reverse" and documented as such....

 

True. Just wondering if there is some general consensus.

 

The general consensus is the following, based on Jan Lingen of ONS:

The side which shows the highest authority, would generally be regarded as the obverse. So generally the side with the name of the emperor would be the obverse. If, however, the Kalima is shown on the coin, then it is taken to be the highest authority and therefore regarded as the obverse.