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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2899263, member: 82322&quot;]A good site for these coins is Zeno.ru.&nbsp; They don&#039;t give catalog numbers but they show lots of examples.&nbsp; For <i>Rudrasimha I</i> start at <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=7983" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=7983" rel="nofollow">https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=7983</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The nice thing about these coins is that they are dated to the year of issue.&nbsp; The date is on the obverse behind the head.&nbsp; To read them, try to follow the instructions by Pankaj Tandon at <a href="http://people.bu.edu/ptandon/WK-Legends.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://people.bu.edu/ptandon/WK-Legends.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://people.bu.edu/ptandon/WK-Legends.pdf</a> .&nbsp; For this reason, when picking these out of a junk tray, everyone should go for ones with clear inscriptions to the left of the head, and ignore examples with missing dates.&nbsp; Like Buffalo nickels, losing the date ruins the fun for a lot of people.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, here is mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]698095[/ATTACH]</p><p>Western Satraps, Vijayasena (238-250 AD), 2.16g, drachm, 14mm</p><p>Obv: Bust of Vijayasena, with corrupted Greek legend, date in Brahmi numerals behind (169 Saka Era = 247 AD)</p><p>Rev: Three-arched hill or Chaitya, with river, crescent and sun, within legend in Brahmi <i>Rajno Mahaksatrapasa Damasenasaputrasa Rajnah Ksatrapasa Vijayasanasa</i> (&quot;of Raja Satrap Vijayasena, son of Raja Mahasatrap Damasena&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p>I paid $11 for this coin from a dealer who had a box of them, $11 to pick.&nbsp; Hopefully I got the date right -- I haven&#039;t posted this coin before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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