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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spaniard, post: 2875594, member: 90248&quot;]Thanks to all for your comments they are really appreciated!.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse of the coin shows the ruler, be it king or queen,standing and sacrificing at an alter..</p><p>Here&#039;s the same Didda Rani coin from the previous thread showing the reverse.Next to it there is a Toramana coin,he ruled in the 5th to early 6th century this shows us how theses coins have become more and more abstract over hundreds of years,but giving me the clues necessary to decipher these more abstract forms.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]688191[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]688192[/ATTACH] </p><p>First I&#039;ll start with the head.You can see from the examples below the ornate headwear.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]688193[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]688194[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]688195[/ATTACH] </p><p>Next to the left of the ruler at 8 and 10 oclock we can see the same two flower forms as on the obverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]688196[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]688197[/ATTACH]</p><p>On the right of the ruler running from 1 to 3 oclock there is a &quot;Shri&quot; usually only the edge of this is seen, if at all, and the full design is only visible on coins heavily offset to the left.The coin below I&#039;ve just bought and was VERY important in clarifying not only this but actualy shows the outer edge of the full design with a ring of dots.This has given me a true radius to work from and confirms a diameter of 24-25mm.<img src="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/images/icon_smile_big.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]688198[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]688199[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]688201[/ATTACH] </p><p>Continued on next post....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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