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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2623577, member: 82322&quot;]I was also confused when I got mine.&nbsp; First look at these Antiochos horsehead coins:</p><p><a href="http://coinindia.com/galleries-greek-antiochos.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinindia.com/galleries-greek-antiochos.html" rel="nofollow">http://coinindia.com/galleries-greek-antiochos.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Then look at these coins of Eastern Sogdiana: <a href="http://www.sogdcoins.narod.ru/english/sogdiana/e_coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sogdcoins.narod.ru/english/sogdiana/e_coins.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sogdcoins.narod.ru/english/sogdiana/e_coins.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A theory is that at least the obverse represents a degenerate form of the Antiochos horsehead coins.&nbsp; I am not sure if it is a good theory, but that is why they are often called &quot;Antiochos imitation / Archer type&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sogdcoins.narod.ru site blocks copy-and-paste.&nbsp; If you turn off Javascript in your browser you will be able to copy the Russian text to the clipboard and feed it to Google Translate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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