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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1642468, member: 19463"]A few Indian types I consider different enough to have joined my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]236909.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ishvakus c.300 AD PB13</p><p>Mitchiner 5075</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]236912.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>MAITRAKAS OF VALABHI Ar drachm</p><p>Mitchiner 4885-98?</p><p>450-700 AD but I don't have the issuing ruler even though the reverse names the founder of the dynasty (Bhattaraka). These look a lot like the common Western Satraps coins but have a trident on the reverse in place of the mountain. Help me?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]236913.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Toramana II 540-570 ADAE unit Mitchiner 3792-5</p><p>This is actually pretty nice for these crude things but I bought it for the very hard green patina which seems restricted to the high points and the clear reverse legend JaYa at right. I would like to have one with faces well struck but have not seen one for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]236914.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]236915.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Two from the Napki Malek group which come bronze and silver (and everything inbetween?). They are easy to find with nice obverses but the reverses are usually crude like these. Mitchiner 1508var. 6th century?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1642468, member: 19463"]A few Indian types I consider different enough to have joined my collection: [ATTACH]236909.vB[/ATTACH] Ishvakus c.300 AD PB13 Mitchiner 5075 [ATTACH]236912.vB[/ATTACH] MAITRAKAS OF VALABHI Ar drachm Mitchiner 4885-98? 450-700 AD but I don't have the issuing ruler even though the reverse names the founder of the dynasty (Bhattaraka). These look a lot like the common Western Satraps coins but have a trident on the reverse in place of the mountain. Help me? [ATTACH]236913.vB[/ATTACH] Toramana II 540-570 ADAE unit Mitchiner 3792-5 This is actually pretty nice for these crude things but I bought it for the very hard green patina which seems restricted to the high points and the clear reverse legend JaYa at right. I would like to have one with faces well struck but have not seen one for sale. [ATTACH]236914.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]236915.vB[/ATTACH] Two from the Napki Malek group which come bronze and silver (and everything inbetween?). They are easy to find with nice obverses but the reverses are usually crude like these. Mitchiner 1508var. 6th century?[/QUOTE]
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