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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3989030, member: 98035&quot;]Thanks all!</p><p><br /></p><p>What honestly excites me the most is to see two more of these in the lot (about center, on the right side, one upright, one upside down)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1050178[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought that from a similar hoard in early 2017 and haven&#039;t seen any more until now, including in any of the references on this series. I will need the coins in hand, but tentatively, I think these might all be die matches. Die matches in this series are extremely rare, hinting that probably millions of these coins were made, and nearly all of them were subsequently melted down for metal to re-coin over the centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is an interesting point about our hobby in general - it seems like there is no limit to how focused one can get, especially for series like this one that did not have a Roman or Greek level of oversight at the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect the series generally (which I define as anything featuring at least some vestigial remnants of Peroz&#039;s coinage) although my focus is mostly on mapping the evolution from the series 1.2 coins (a few are present in this hoard) to the more common Gadhaiya - something that even Maheshwari glosses over. Deyell mentions this, and goes a step further suggesting that individual types could possibly be assigned to specific kings of the dynasty, which I am not sure I agree is possible. Maheshwari, on the other hand, goes into esoteric depth on the Sri Ha series, and makes excellent observations on his very large hoards of Malwa-style drammas.</p><p><br /></p><p>These early types are especially intriguing because I could probably collect thousands before I could articulate any sort of evolutionary path straight through.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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