Indo-Sasanian Hunnic Coinage

Please post your Hunnic coinage. Just got this one in mail yesterday!

AV Dinar ND 7.05g/ 17mm Sind Mint
Anonymous Hunnis Chieftain circa 5th Century AD
obv. Bust of Peroz I Right/ Tamgha Right
rev. Fire Altar flanked by two attendents/ Arrow above
SNS III/pl.146
C 17 variety Tamgha
Senior, Sind, 7 var.
Mint State

 

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Wow, nice coin! Excellent crown and beard. Me wants!

 

Yup, great coin. I still would like some silver huns overtime.

 

yeah, great coin indeed pm, i haven't seen one quite like it.......it's raining gold here!

 

Thanks....its raining here too(reason I am at home and not working) Unfortunately, its H20/not AV rain. This coin, according to the book, "Sunrise Collection", Volume one is extremely rare. I have never seen one like it.
John

 

This is actually a finer specimen than the one in Sunrise. The Peroz type is perhaps the most common of the Sind imitations, since all later coins in the series are degenerate variants of this type. The same type also appears in SNS 3, with the same tamgha. Here's the Sunrise specimen.

 

Here's another, from the Larry Adams collection.

 

I regret that I only have one Hunnic Coin...


Nezak Huns
Spalapati Deva
AR Jital, AD 750-850
Obv.: Horseman right holding lance.
Rev.: Bull left, Sarada script.
Reference: Tye 5.
Ex: John Anthony... (forgot to add!)

 

Thanks for additional info!
John

 

Better one then none! Not many collectors have these wonderfull coins. Yours has neat design.

 

Here's a Varhran V of Sind, formerly in my collection, now at Princeton.

 

Another, later Peroz imitation, also now at Princeton.

 

You know the coin is serious when it gets its own Ivy League education. I just hope the state of NJ doesn't leave a "film" on the coins.

 

Great coin, panzerman, and thank you to pfitzner for providing context with other examples. I have no Hunnic at the moment, but if you don't mind me stretching the rubrics to include other Sassanian imitations, here's a recent arrival from Tabaristan...

 

Well you USED to have a Hunnic Coin... even listed in this thread! What happened???

 

My favorite Hun is a Kidarite made in the Kushan Style. Naming Gadahara-Peroz.



I have Alchon Huns


Turkic Huns



Xionite Huns


Huns in Gujarat


Some other kinda Huns (Hephthalites)

 

They went off pillaging - you can't keep Huns tied up at home.

 

John Anthony:Very nice coin, great portrait of ruler. Thats the first coin I have seen from Tabaristan.

 

Neat examples, ancientnoob! Man, that Alchon Hun Ruler was scary looking! I remember a movie about "Atilla the Hun" played by Anthony Quinn. Hollywood depicted Atilla in a better image for sure, just like when Omar Sharif played the role of Genghiz Khan!

 

Mine will never be pillaged/ Thor will make sure of that! Or Loki, who is much bigger now!