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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2871759, member: 19463"]Nice one, much nicer than mine. I'll add a coin of Abhimanyu's son Nandigupta who succeeded him in 972 but did not last a year under grandma Didda's loving care. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]686468[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of my coins of this type (and those of the Lankan type with similar fabric) came from a $5 pickout box of them at a Baltimore show several years ago. Most of them were Didda and other commons but there were a couple other ones. I have not tried to add others to my 'set'.</p><p><br /></p><p>You might be one to ask the question for which I never found a satisfactory answer:</p><p>Is the below a cast fake of Kshemagupta and Didda or a smaller denomination? At 3.2g it is about half size? It was mixed in with all the rest so I bought it just because it was different. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]686479[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I wish now I had bought more of the common ones. They varied from nice to absolute junk. Mostly I bought just one per type but I wanted the extra Didda below because the off center reverse showed a letter at the right the well centered ones lacked. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]686480[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2871759, member: 19463"]Nice one, much nicer than mine. I'll add a coin of[B] [/B]Abhimanyu's son Nandigupta who succeeded him in 972 but did not last a year under grandma Didda's loving care. [ATTACH=full]686468[/ATTACH] Most of my coins of this type (and those of the Lankan type with similar fabric) came from a $5 pickout box of them at a Baltimore show several years ago. Most of them were Didda and other commons but there were a couple other ones. I have not tried to add others to my 'set'. You might be one to ask the question for which I never found a satisfactory answer: Is the below a cast fake of Kshemagupta and Didda or a smaller denomination? At 3.2g it is about half size? It was mixed in with all the rest so I bought it just because it was different. [ATTACH=full]686479[/ATTACH] I wish now I had bought more of the common ones. They varied from nice to absolute junk. Mostly I bought just one per type but I wanted the extra Didda below because the off center reverse showed a letter at the right the well centered ones lacked. [ATTACH=full]686480[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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