I like to fancy myself fairly decent at attributing ancients, but this one so far has eluded me! I have never seen anything like it, anywhere, and it has successfully stumped the experts on three other forums. The coin: AE, 11mm, 0.77g Obv: Helmeted bust right? Rev: Figure standing facing in vaguely Kushan style cloak, holding lightning bolt in left hand, unidentified object in right? Provenance: Ebay purchase from 2015, shipped from Europe, and came with 96 other coins, including a few extremely worn Macedonian bronzes, a good assortment of Ptolemaic bronzes, some Eastern mint LRBs (including at least a couple barbarous issues), and a couple Crusader era coins. Based on the garb worn by the reverse figure, I am tempted to call this a Kushan coin, but the only contemporary coin even remotely this small is of the Nagas, which is of a smaller, thicker fabric and doesn't feature these motifs. The figure's head is worn, but blow it up and enhance the contrast, and you can make out a well-proportioned face with eyes, a large nose, pointed chin, long-ish hair and maybe a moustache. What says the CT think-tank? Anyone seen anything like this?
Wow man, that a neat little....I also don't have a clue what it is. It does look like a little Kushan dude on one side doesn't it? I wonder if it some Kushan "tanget" coin, like an imitative or something or a Kusho-Sassanian (Kusho-somebody)?
