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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3514251, member: 98035&quot;]Yesterday, instead of doing any of the plethora of things I should have been doing, I had the sudden urge to dig out, sort, image, and put up my ~150-200 Omkara type drachms. This one in particular stood out for a number of reasons</p><p><br /></p><p>India, Malwa</p><p>Indo Sassanian &quot;Omkara&quot; type drachm</p><p>C. 13-14th century</p><p>Obv: Degenerate Peroz bust right, nose replaced by &quot;conch&quot; Eye replaced by symbol, ear displaced by Ja or Ma</p><p>Rev: Fire altar, &quot;OM&quot; replaces altar shaft</p><p>[ATTACH=full]932493[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]932497[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>- It weighs in at a whopping 5.24g! That&#039;s about 20% over the theoretical 4.4g weight for this type.</p><p>- Not entirely unheard of for this series, there is something funky going on that completely obscures the eye symbol. Closest I can think of would be the &quot;staff&quot;.</p><p>- The ear is too obscured to be discerned</p><p>- The reverse symbol is mostly off flan, but I can see enough to tell that it is a simple style OM only. </p><p>- Further puzzling, the silver content appears to be much higher than expected. The highest silver content is about 20%, belonging to the type with a triangle and chandrabindu (&quot;Conch&quot;) eye - but that type always has a small, fine style OM. The only other combinations are a dot, a tiny crescent, and an X or +, all of which are lower in purity (11% to 0%).</p><p><br /></p><p>Tenatively, I believe this may be an unpublished type.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those who don&#039;t have Maheshwari&#039;s book (i.e. Probably everyone except me) he included a handy dandy attribution table with all the types known to him</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]932494[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Numbers are the silver purity of specimens he had XRF tested, upper and lower ranges. Grey squares are specimens that he owned or studied, white are unknown combinations. I&#039;m personally unconvinced that 8, 11, and 12 are actually distinct varieties, but I digress. Of my coins, the overwhelmingly vast majority was 8/3 (Ja behind head, cross eye, Sri Omkara) followed by 8/5 (Ma, cross, Om). Only about 6 were unattributable like this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m working through the rest of the images - got a long way to go!</p><p><br /></p><p>Post any examples of these Omkara drachms you have, or anything else that is exceptionally over or underweight for the type![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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