Nice coin. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-rare-indian-coin-rarely-offered-for-sale.234895/#post-1770287
I have some serious issues photographing cup shaped coins. I have one Himyar that is impossible to take a decent picture of. I have had some luck...
I'd like to think the life was something like that. Maybe the cord broke in battle and the coin was deposited. To bad we may never know if the...
Yea the quick succession of inept kings, exhausted poorly commanded armies left Persia a lame duck, to be carved up served to the locals.
Best of Luck, there is one from us.
Thanks Eng! Jay (Gay) GD mint is located in Media the Southern part of North West Iran. The tag refernces Numismatic Art of Persia, The Sunrise...
Genius, Love it!
Family is great and Evan is getting big for sure. He's just starting to put sentences together and of course "coin" is in his vocabulary. I showed...
Love the heroic owl.
Man that one is awesome!! Holy smokes.
http://athenianowlcoins.reidgold.com/ If you can further attribute that would be awesome.
This is a new and interesting acquisition of the Persian senior army commander Mehrbandak, a Parthian from the house of Mihran, who usurped the...
My inspiration!
@Mat - that a pretty nice Khusro II. I'm surprised you have one. Its a he and not she, he is Persian not Roman. Has the world done topsy turby....
This is really an outstanding lot. For what you paid you did extremely well. That is the nicest 1 / 1/2 karshapana I have ever seen....
Nice coin but I think your's is closer to my "Intermediate" dated BC 393-294 [ATTACH]
The OP coin is crazy enjoyable. Love it! That must have been a heck of a lot.
I really wasn't in the market to purchase acquire anything Greek, but like always when something irresistible presents itself and I can get it in...
At the beginning of the 7th century AD, the Byzantine Empire and Sassanian Persia were in exhausted from decades of warfare, mutually unfavorable...
@Turok - I love the username/ avatar, huge fan!
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