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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3200353, member: 98035&quot;]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.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin:</p><p>AE, 11mm, 0.77g</p><p>Obv: Helmeted bust right?</p><p>Rev: Figure standing facing in vaguely Kushan style cloak, holding lightning bolt in left hand, unidentified object in right?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]828125[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Provenance:</p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;t feature these motifs. The figure&#039;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.[ATTACH=full]828127[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>What says the CT think-tank? Anyone seen anything like this?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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