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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 23330020, member: 128351&quot;]I don&#039;t have any coin that could be documented in some important collection catalogue. Most of mine were bought when I was much younger and visited ancient cities with my parents in North Africa or Middle East. In a sense, many are personal travel souvenirs. </p><p><br /></p><p>This one, for example. I got it from a local dealer in 1970 at Bamiyan, Afghanistan... Its provenance is just this extraordinary country I was lucky to visit when it was possible. There were few western visitors back then, some were backpackers hitchhiking on their way to Kathmandu. Those were different times.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1546105[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>AE tetradrachm of the Kushan king Vima Takto, alias &quot;Soter Megas&quot; (c. 80-90 AD), king of Bactria (Afghanistan)</p><p>Obv: Bust of the king wearing royal headband and radiate, holding sceptre ; three-pronged tamgha behind.</p><p>Rev: ΒΑCΙΛΕΥ(C) ΒΑCΙΛΕΥѠΝ CѠΤΗΡ ΜΕΓΑ(C) : &quot;The King of Kings, Great Saviour&quot;, mounted king with royal headband, holding a sceptre. Three-pronged tamgha.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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