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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2539916, member: 19463&quot;]Sometimes I have to question just how far we can go in identifying a coin.&nbsp; We collectors of mainstream ancients expect coins to be attached to a ruler or time period and a city or a mint.&nbsp; These can be quite concrete unless we are dealing with issues where several rulers issued coins in the name of their predecessor where we have to research details and attribute some coins marked, for example, England&#039;s king Henry to John or Richard.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In some cases I&#039;m not sure coins were intended to be attached to a ruler.&nbsp; The Shahi jital series labelled &#039;Great Commander&#039; etc. fall in this category to my way of seeing them.&nbsp; We attribute such coins to large spans of time.&nbsp; US coins would be like this if they left off the dates but we have the option as it is of associating a coin with who was President that year or not as we see fit.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a coin I have listed as&nbsp; &#039;Malwa-Gupta Succession&#039; which more or less means &#039;unknown India&#039; at my level.&nbsp; Is it a mystery?&nbsp; To me it is.&nbsp; Part of that is my ignorance of the history of the region and time (5th century AD?).&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]544128[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite kind of mystery is one step beyond the one below.&nbsp; I have it labeled as Afganistan but have no idea which side is up or other details of ID.&nbsp; It was given to me by someone who had no idea and I&#039;m below that.&nbsp; The label Afganistan makes it seem too close to being IDed to be a total mystery.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]544137[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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