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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 1783424, member: 44140&quot;]Huge Show. There were many, many ancients dealers, well dressed many in suits and ties, selling coins tagged at a Gajillion dollars. A good majority with coins worth more than the Prius I drove up there. I would say most of the ancient dealers were &quot;well known&quot; and versed in what they sold. As for my self I was awed but not interested. (I really would have taken one of each!)&nbsp; Clad in my comfy jeans and Woody-wood Pecker T-shirt, I set out on my mission. That mission was to not leave the show empty handed.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After about 3 hours of searching junk boxes and seeing what the &quot;non ancient guys with ancients had&quot; I found myself still empty handed limited only by budget. At this point I am feeling well frankly very poor. Parroozing the dealers, I sit down with at an empty table of one gentleman who has some super high grade Roman Republic and Parthian coins...Gorgeous but again out of my budget. Just as I was about to give up, the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I said to the gentleman, &quot;You got Huns, Indians and junk?&quot; He said, &quot;Huns, I have one or two, but I collect those!&quot; His Huns were nice but way out of my price range and one was right there and would have been coming home with me but then I knew why my hair stood up! As he dumped out his &quot;junk&quot;, I saw something only me would see, he attributed the coin correctly but did not make the connection.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Several Huge silver Indian punch mark coins. That&#039;s right HUGE PUNCHMARK coins!!</p><p>I said that I didn&#039;t own any of the larger punch mark coins, and I wanted one of the three, after learning about my Hun interest I was able to strike a very good deal. This coin is one of two coins, I walked home with. Of the three I selected this one on a coin flip. The other one was triangular and a tad larger but had many punchs and the big punch has been obliterated by the centuries. So I opted for the one with the nice punchs and surface.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>India,</p><p>Janapada, Shakya Republic</p><p>Anonymous ( c. 600-500 BC)</p><p>Lifetime and Homeland of Gautama Buddha.</p><p>AR Archaic 5 Shana</p><p>30.4 mm x 14.6 mm x 6.79 g</p><p>Unifaced: Primary Punch- Two Crescents (one with a root)</p><p>Five secondary punch marks.</p><p>Note: Cupric Deposit on reverse.</p><p>ref: Rajgor 534</p><p>[ATTACH=full]285996[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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