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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1748512, member: 19463&quot;]Since Ripley said &quot;but has <b>a</b> Karosthi&quot; rather than &quot;but has Karosthi&quot; I am wondering if there is confusion on terms.&nbsp;&nbsp; Karosthi is a language:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharosthi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharosthi" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharosthi</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>At the top of this reverse is a monogram that appears to be a backwards K and an E.&nbsp; Many cultures (including Greeks) used monograms.&nbsp; The Kushan kings each adopted a symbol that indicated his name/reign (remember the musician Prince tried this a few decades ago).&nbsp; These are called Tamga.</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamga" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamga" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamga</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>By coincidence, the KE monogram looks a bit like a Kushan Tamga lying on its side.&nbsp; It most reminds me of that of Huvishka except for the latter&#039;s four bar E. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]274515[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Tamga of Kushan rulers of this period all seem to be a comb of three or four prongs above a base that changed with reign.&nbsp; Soter Megas had a circle; Wima Kadphises and Kanishka&#039;s look similar except the last tends to show the bottom legs grown together into something that looks to me like an inverted heart and the &#039;wings&#039; turn down rather than up:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]274516[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]274517[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Trying to describe these in words is not easy but that&#039;s why we post photos.&nbsp; Many Kushan bronzes are worn or corroded so we have to be careful but the reigns can be identified by these symbols with no other legend showing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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