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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2853076, member: 76181&quot;]So, the Kunduz (Qunduz) hoard was stolen from the museum and several of the coins have made it into auctions. I am positive of this. Two came up about 5 years ago. I corresponded with one of the auction winners. After learning that they had made it into circulation, I bought the book below. It was tough to find at the time. It details the hoard. It has plates of all the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/30173/26241648_1m.jpg?v=8D43CA6384D99D0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If it is worth the time, I will look this up later. But if it is in the book.............</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>btw if you go here , you will find this</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/afghan/list.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/afghan/list.html" rel="nofollow">http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/afghan/list.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>More than 30,000 coins, from the eighth century B.C. to modern periods, among the largest such collections in the world. An important group was a Greco-Bactrian hoard of more than 600 coins dating from the third to the second centuries B.C. found in 1946 near Kunduz, in Kunduz province. This cache included the largest Greek coins ever discovered, double decadrachmas issued by the Macedonian king Amyntas ca. 120 B.C. and weighing 3.4 ounces each. It also included hoards from Chaman-i-Houzouri near Kabul (Greek and Persian coins from ca. 380 B.C.), Tepe Maranjan (gold and silver Sasanian coins including 368 silver drachmas of the fourth century A.D.), and Mir Zakah (8,000 fourth- to first-century B.C. Indian and Indo-Greek coins, 3,500 Indo-Scythian coins, and various Indo-Parthian and Kushan coins of the early centuries A.D.). <i>Most are gone; some gold coins may be with Tillya-tepe gold said to be in bank vault in Kabul. Editor&#039;s note: according to </i>The Art Newspaper<i> (February 1994), a British dealer had been offered a coin from the Kunduz hoard, said to be very rare and one of six, presumably a double decadrachma.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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