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Excellent write-up, coins, and images. I also find Huletski’s “Russian Wire Coins 1533–1645” a good reference. The reported fate of poor Dmitry...
Sultans of Dehli: Fakhr al-Din Muhammad bin Tughluq (AH725-752, 1325-1351 AD), AE Tanka (Forced Token Currency), Takhtgah Dehli mint, AH731, G&G...
Roman Republic: M. Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger/Stoic), AR Quinarius, Utica (in Tuinicia) mint, 47-46 BC, Sear 1383, RRC 462/2, CRI...
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Modern token with a fictitious date.
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Very nice specimen. The skin of the indistinct animal (variously described as an antelope/deer, a tiger, a he-goat, an elephant, or a lion) is...
Wow, I never noticed this detail earlier (also clearly visible on dougsmit’s first specimen). I wonder if that is a belt tied around his waist...
The first coin is of the Kushan king Vima Taktho (Soter Megas) (c. AD 55-100), while the second is attributed to Indo-Scythian, Azes I, (57-35 BC)...
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Amazing thread. Towards the end of last year, I broke a long-standing personal “jinx”, finally “winning” a “horned” Elagabalus type showing the...
The other two I mentioned. On the second one, you can clearly make out Shiva’s mouschache and his hand resting over the bull’s hump. Kushan...
Nice coins. The tetradrachms are quite common, but hard to find in a good state of preservation. The ithyphallic aspect (seen in your second coin)...
I had once written to the National Museum, New Delhi, pointing out that a breast-plate in their collection, which reportedly belonged to the...
Kushan Dynasty: Vima Kadphises (c. 100-128 AD), AE Tetradrachm, First Bilingual series, Kapisa mint, Göbl 762, MAC 3008 (17.06 g, 27 mm) Obverse:...
India, Mughal Empire: Humayun, AV unit of uncertain denomination, NM (Badakshan type), AH955 (0.72 g) Obverse: Kalima: La Ilaha Al Allah,...
Nice coins. I too find such coins difficult to photograph: playing around with certain settings in Lightroom helps sometimes. Here is the other...
Yes; also multiple cities (12 or more, if I recall correctly).
My introduction to the type was through Wayne G. Sayles’ Ancient Coin Collecting. He does not delve into the specifics of the attribution, but...
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