Wow, thats one ive never seen before :O A lovely hybrid
Should be 1582-98AD
I agree schroff marks can be a possibility, but in all the mughal rupees I have seen, the silver test mark is either a cut or a circular dent on...
Abd Allah bahadur Khan, shayabanid dynasty 1/4 gold mithqal. Similar to this one;...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Bhonsla rajas of nagpur, katak mint, in the name of mughal emperor Ahmed Shah bahadur. 1754-84 Maratha empire. The coin is...
So one can say these coins were the earliest form of kushan art.
Ah lovely, that was a quick identification! What about this one, not sure if the obverse is the right side up. The reverse seems to have a crude...
I have been seeing a few strange new coins around. Heres one with a blurred out bust surrounded by some legend. The obverse has some winged...
Damn I need a zoilus too, thanks for the reminder :p Very crispy coin you got.
Haha yess, the bactrians were the precursor to the indo greeks. The Indo greek kingdom was founded by a bactrian king, but later it divided from...
Yes! In love with it.
In this condition, people who see my collection might actually believe its 2000 years old. The glittering condition of the rest makes them take my...
Finally got my hands on another indo greek tetradrachm, albeit just like my philoxenos one, in incomplete form. Heliocles II, 90-75BC...
This one grammer of menander from coinindia.com is also interesting. They do mention the leeching in the water. So can one attribute low weight...
Thanks for the responses guys! Puts my mind at ease. The guy I got it off does metal detecting but also buys from other sources aswell, so its...
Hello folks, its been a while since I posted here. I was going through my collection and weighed my Indo Greek antimachus II drachm. It came up...
[ATTACH] These ones
My other silver sassan coin clipped from the crown a few days ago aswell. The silver in these thin coins seems very brittle and crystalline when...
Got my first umayuad dirham finally and I broke it while removing it from the flip. Didnt expect it to be so brittle :(( [ATTACH] Thank god for...
I agree. While searching google about various coins of phraates III I came across the front facing and the one without a tiara even. Was...
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