Received my mint state Papal States AV Fiorini Di Camera (Pope Alexander VI/Borgia) Roma Mint 1492-1503. The mailman hand delivered it to my wife Then I checked my "proxy bid" for todays Rauch Auction/Ancients auction. I had placed a bid of 4400 euros/ ended up winning it for 2800! My wife can make these my "Christmas Presents" Here she is....Kushan Empire AV Dinar ND 20.5mm./ 7.98g Mint A/ whatever that implies? mint state/double struck King Vima Kadphises 113-27AD obv. Diademed/crowned half-lenght bust/ resting on clouds rev. Oesho standing left/ holding trident and goat skin
Here it is... AV Fiorini Di Camera ND Roma Mint 3.79g. 24mm. fast stempelglanz Pope Alexander VI They had a great mini series about the Borgia Family. Alexander's wife got really riled up when he started having an affair with a much younger lady.
Thanks all... I figured I walked a total of 10,000+kms this year on the job, now its time to cash in and buy coins/ hard work=nice coins I have another two weeks of work left/ then I join the ranks of the "unemployed" time to have FUN!
Swee-eeet coin!! (And sounds like a sweet deal too!) Congrats! Here is a Vima in much humbler metal: Obv. King standing facing head left, sacrificing over altar; .to left, filleted trident behind, tamgha and club to right. Rev. Lord Shiva standing facing, holding trident and diadem in front of Nandi (bull); Buddhist triratana (“Three Jewels”) to left. Looking at both the gold and bronze it is easy to suppose that Vima continued the odd practice of his Yuezhi steppe-people ancestry of artifically elongating the skull (by binding it from infancy):
I thought the same thing as I started to read the thread and I was going to point that out. Then I saw your post.
I am starting to love Kushan coinage, they are very affordable/ except for the AV Double Dinars/ AV Dinar depicting the Buddha....
