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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Muhammad Niazi, post: 24823071, member: 83232&quot;]There appears to have been a nice big find of bactrian coins from afghanistan. I believe a 2 or 300 coin hoard was found. Here are 80 coins. All are copper save the few nickel varieties. If there was any silver found it wasnt sold with the coppers. They are harshly cleaned, patinas are stripped off most and some are exceptional in quality but only on one side. </p><p><br /></p><p>I split the coins according to type and ruler, here are the coins in chronological order:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Diodotus I or II c.240BC, Bronze Chalkous,</b></p><p>Bust of Hermes right, wearing petasos /</p><p>Pallas Athena standing facing, holding spear</p><p>Greek legend: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔIOΔOTOY (<i>of King Diodotos</i>)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589332[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589333[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Diodotus I or II c.240BC, Bronze Chalkous,</b></p><p>Head of Zeus right, laureate</p><p>Artemis running right holding angled torch with both hands, quiver over shoulder</p><p>Greek legend: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔIOΔOTOY (<i>of King Diodotos</i>)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589334[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589335[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589336[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Euthydemos I, Bronze chalkous and dichalkon, c. 230-200 BCE</b></p><p>Head of Herakles facing right, within dotted border</p><p>Horse prancing right,</p><p>Greek legend: BAΣIΛEΩΣ EYΘYΔHMOY</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589337[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589338[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>a good example of the horsie side:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589339[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>a good example of herakles, from a dichalkon:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589340[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>continued in next post:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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