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<p>[QUOTE="THCoins, post: 2183020, member: 57364"]I appreciate seeing the differences here in the few examples you showed.</p><p>Your last one is the most intrigueing because it is not listed in Tye. In addition i never could find a definite answer to what the character behind the horseman should be. It resembles a Devanagari "E". But that script did not exist yet at the time. The script on the coins is commonly described as Sharada. I could not find a truely matching character in the script.</p><p>I probably would not pay much extra if i would encounter a Tye#1 type. I have come to the conviction that Tye#1 actually may not exist. Mr Tye made the distinction between type#1 and 2 partly based on the assumption that the text in front of the horseman in type 1 was cursive Bactrian. The text on the type 2 was supposed to be degraded Brahmi. Likely however, the text in the type 2 also is cursive Bactrian, and written in a more correct form than the text on type 1. So type 1 may just be a bit degraded variant of type 2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="THCoins, post: 2183020, member: 57364"]I appreciate seeing the differences here in the few examples you showed. Your last one is the most intrigueing because it is not listed in Tye. In addition i never could find a definite answer to what the character behind the horseman should be. It resembles a Devanagari "E". But that script did not exist yet at the time. The script on the coins is commonly described as Sharada. I could not find a truely matching character in the script. I probably would not pay much extra if i would encounter a Tye#1 type. I have come to the conviction that Tye#1 actually may not exist. Mr Tye made the distinction between type#1 and 2 partly based on the assumption that the text in front of the horseman in type 1 was cursive Bactrian. The text on the type 2 was supposed to be degraded Brahmi. Likely however, the text in the type 2 also is cursive Bactrian, and written in a more correct form than the text on type 1. So type 1 may just be a bit degraded variant of type 2.[/QUOTE]
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