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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Topcat7, post: 8070699, member: 73372&quot;]I need help, please, to identify this coin.</p><p>I believe that the reverse has an Elephant and rider facing left, and all I can get from the the obverse is a circle of &#039;dots&#039; around ... ???</p><p>I am thinking Kushan but (almost) all of the Kushan coins, I can find, show the Elephant facing right (the opposite direction). The only Elephants facing left are &#039;riderless&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Kushans, interestingly, show the riders sitting astride the Elephant as if they were riding a horse - i.e.with the riders legs behind the Elephants front legs, which is the widest part of the beast. If you are to ride an Elephant (without a &#039;chair&#039;), you have to sit on the neck of the beast, which is not the depiction on the Kushan coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1399995[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1400000[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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