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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1272459, member: 26302&quot;][ATTACH]139547.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I know its a horrible pic, but on the throat there is a gold plug in this silver Hepthalite coin. Its more goldish in hand on the plug, and other examples range from black to bright gold. I even saw one once with the plug fallen out, showing they punched into the silver but not through to make a hole for the gold. It is Nezak Huns, Vakhu Dezha, around 8th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never heard a reason for the gold plug. I would assume to higher rate the value of the coin, but its weird since these size silver coins had circulated for 500 years at this point, so I don&#039;t know the reason they wanted to retariff them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Btw calling this ancient is a little of a stretch, but I collect Sassanid and consider them ancient. These were contemporary with the Sassanid empire, and of similar style. I know in Europe for this date they call it medieval. However, Byzantines are also called ancients. There is some definite overlap here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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