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What's up with JA?

 

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No worries, just dentist crap. I didn't mean to hijack the thread.

 

Hope he/she washes their hands BEFORE they stick them in your mouth.

 

No need to apologize for the hijacking, as long as all the eastern collectors can exit the thread safely and you surrender peacefully.

 

Hey, I've gone a little bit Eastern myself, which is largely due to your influence. And I plan to go even further this year.

 

And to prove it, I'll post this nice Khusrau II I bought at the last Baltimore show...

 

And a trio of Indians...

 

Aww thanks, where in the east are you looking?
There are different kinds of "East"
There is..

Kinda' East...



Mildly East...




Easterly...



Eastern....



Far Eastern...




Uber Far Eastern...





The East has soo many flavors to choose from...

 

Nothing specific, just keeping my eyes open for interesting pieces at reasonable prices, that include all of the above. That really is a LOVELY collection!

 

Aww hell yea!

 

While you guys are looking I reshot my...

Western India
Siharas of Khankan (1000-1200 AD)
Anonymous
AR Drachm 14 mm x 4.19 g
Obverse: Stylized Sassanian Bust right. "Sri" in Brahmi behind head left field.
Reverse: Stylized Horseman spearing two falling enemies. Sun in upper right field.
ref: Mit. NIS 651v
ex. Dr. Alex Fishman

 

Cool Posts!!

Personally, I think 'Mildly' east appeals to me most at the present.....

Who doesn't love 'fire altars' and all...

Parthian and/or Sassanian thread anyone?

 

Thanks MZ! I urge you to make a Sassanian or Parthian thread!

There are many great past threads, but still...

 

Nice Milky East coins guys.

Heh, yeah after what ANoob told him what ta' do.

 

A-noob, I'd love to start one, but I only have two modest examples to post...obviously, I'm not very versed in the series either---just mildly familiar LOL

 

Technically I specialize in a culture that's mildly East, the Nabataeans. Although their cities centered around the South-Western Levant, their caravans ranged as far as Western India. They are even known to have hosted a Chinese envoy at Petra.

 

True but it seems they kept their coins to themselves.

 

Yes. Excavations at Petra and other cities indicate extremely few coin finds of other civilizations, which indicates that Nabataean coinage was economically strong enough to meet the demands of intra-national commerce. But their coins are found all over the Arabian Peninsula and Alexandria.

 

I wonder if the Nabateans were accepting all sorts of coins from trade and passing them along as bullion or strictly re-coining foreign coinage. Usually if your doing trade with the far east it involves a lot of silver.

 

We know for a fact that the Nabataeans conducted much of their long-distance trade with gold, by weight. If you have to travel a thousand miles to pick up a thousand pounds of frankincense, it doesn't make any sense to carry enough silver to pay for it. You've got to travel light. One sufficiently heavy gold goblet would do the trick.

And we have historical evidence that the Nabataeans did in fact trade with gold goblets, as Obodas II is recorded sending such a gift to Augustus.