Do you have a rare ancient coin?

This is a correction to the initial post in this thread which was about this 19 mm coin, a Philip I (AD 244-249):

which the seller and I both thought was unpublished from Antioch. However, it turns out it is really attributed to Phillipopolis (in southern Syria, and thus not in Butcher's book on coins of northern Syria and not in McAlee's book on coins of Antioch). It shares an obverse die with a coin of this size but a different reverse from Antioch. Kevin Buthcher published the type in an article "Two related coinages of the third century A.D.: Phillipopolis and Samosta" in IJN 1987, He discusses die-sharing between Syrian cities. He knew of four examples of this type at the time. There is one in the new publication of the Sofaer collection "Coins of the Holy Land" by Meshorer. So, with the CNG piece I mentioned, there seem to be at least seven examples. Still rare, but not as rare as I thought.

 

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This Roman coin represents a plowing scene , with the oxen headed left.We couldn't find a similar design, nor could we define precisely the name of the Emperor on the obverse. Charles

 

The Kidarites also known as the Small Kushan sought to preserve the splendor of the Kushan Empire and this particular ruler even named him self THE KUSHAN. In 360 AD the Kushan Shah was ousted and a new King came to power. His name was Kidara of which the tribe of Red Huns was named. The all silver coinage of the Kidarites are very rare.

Red Huns / Small Kushan
Kidarite Kingdom
AR Drachm 29 mm x 4.11 grams
Kabul, Afghanistan mint s.360 AD
Obverse: 3 /4 Bust of king facing slightly right, wearing crown with streamers, KIDARA KU-SANASA in Brahmi above
Reverse: Fire altar flanked by attendants, SULAKHA in Brahmi below. 29mm, Ref:. Göbl, Hunnen Em. 11; MACW -.

 

"The coins of the Indian Sultanates"#AS24; Rajgor -.
Very rare, the rarest of all Sindi silver qanhari dirhams according to "the coins of the Indian Sultanates". "Isa" is the arabic form of the name "Jesus".
Sind was the first part of India to come under muslim rule. The earliest Amirs issued small silver coins (1/4 dirhams) - all carrying the name of the Amir, but without any dates, so they are very difficult to date exactly, especially since the Amirs of Sind are virtually unknown from other sources. These coins are generally not rare, but are difficult to find in high quality, like this coin.

11 mm x 0.48 grams s. 870-1030 AD


Billah yathiqu Isa' wa bihi yantasir
Illah Muhammed rasul Allah al Amir Isa,

In God trusts Jesus and through him Victory.
In God Mohamed is the messenger of Allah, Jesus

 

I still think the dog ant tunny stater could be rare in that denomition. I've spent a lot of time looking around electrum and Ive een plenty of hectes but the only stater I could find was on Roma and sold for 8,000 GBP (it was nicer than mine, though).

Joeseph Linzalone told me it's common in ll denomination, but he might think I'm trying to sell ;3

If antyhing, he as a few pieces *I* want that he's bringing with him to SF.